Kubernetes Observability Explained: Monitoring vs APM vs Tracing

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Understanding the difference between Monitoring, Observability, and APM is essential for every DevOps engineer, SRE, and Kubernetes practitioner. In this video, I break down all three concepts using simple explanations, real-world K8s examples, and clear diagrams. You will learn: 🔹 What is Monitoring? 🔹 What is Observability? 🔹 What is APM (Application Performance Monitoring)? 🔹 How they work in Kubernetes (K8s) 🔹 Metrics vs Logs vs Traces 🔹 When to use Monitoring vs Observability vs APM 🔹 Best tools for DevOps & Microservices architecture Whether you're working with EKS, AKS, GKE, or on-prem Kubernetes, this comparison will help you understand how to detect issues, find root causes, and optimize application performance. 🔧 Topics Covered Monitoring in Kubernetes Observability in Kubernetes APM in Microservices Prometheus, Grafana, Jaeger, OpenTelemetry, Elastic APM, SkyWalking DevOps best practices Debugging microservices latency Distributed tracing explained ⭐ Who Should Watch? ✔ DevOps Engineers ✔ Kubernetes Beginners & Experts ✔ SRE / Platform Engineers ✔ Backend Developers ✔ Anyone working with microservices 📌 Keywords monitoring vs observability vs apm, kubernetes monitoring, kubernetes observability, apm in k8s, devops observability, openTelemetry tutorial, skywalking apm, elastic apm, prometheus grafana kubernetes, microservices tracing, k8s devops tutorial