Good observability is essential for modern software. It gives us confidence that our systems are working properly. And it also allows us to debug issues efficiently. In this talk, we’ll explore everything you need to know to start applying good observability to your projects. And we’ll see the most common pitfalls you need to be aware of. We will start with the tools and basic concepts in monitoring. And we’ll go over the 3 most common mistakes people make with it. Then we’ll see how to have automatic alerts to detect issues. And, we’ll touch on the principles for setting up good alerts. As a final step, we’ll see how to build our logging system and how to apply it in the most efficient way to debug issues easily.