Observation

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Observability in the Swift on Server ecosystem is an important aspect for troubleshooting and understanding the behavior of services. It consists of three main components: logging, metrics, and tracing. Logging helps you understand what a service did by providing detailed information, while metrics give a high-level overview of the service's health. Tracing is particularly useful in distributed systems to understand the path a request takes through the system. The Swift ecosystem provides API packages that allow code to emit observability events, which can be used to instrument methods like listevents for better insight into service operations.

For more details, you can refer to the session Explore the Swift on Server ecosystem (10:53).