observability

What is the difference between monitoring and observability?

Monitoring is process of collecting live events from your application, traces, debug messages, warnings and exceptions. The same process may involve sending those events to some storage or application that analyze or visualize those messages. I.e. in asp.net core applications monitoring of application involves calling a ILogger and sending those logs or critical exceptions to AppInsights. Monitoring may also involve activity of development team members to active watch those logged messages for any potential errors or problems that may impact availability of production environment.