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Monitoring tells you what broke; observability explains why.
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Kube-prometheus-stack bundles Prometheus and Grafana for monitoring Kubernetes workloads. On the surface, it looks like the answer to all your monitoring needs. But monitoring is not observability, and if you confuse the two, you will hit a wall.