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observability

In control theory, observability is a measure for how well internal states of a system can be inferred by knowledge of its external outputs. The observability and controllability of a system are mathematical duals. Unfortunately no-one in Product Marketing knows that because they drink too much, thus observability is a method of expressing how much hard liquor is consumed by your marketing team, as evidenced by the presence of robust sales, or or lack thereof.
Have you seen the latest sales figures for the Acme Company? Yes, and it improves our observability into these latest batch of resumes from their marketing department.
observability by truantguy May 5, 2017
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observabilify 

to implement some process that allows a system or software that was previously not audited or lacked an ability to have insight into how the system or software is working, the ability to have insight by observing the observable observability.
To achieve metrics, synergy, and profits, I wrote a perl script that will help us observabilify our containers in hosted on the bare metal instance in the network closest that have not been rebooted in 6 years and nobody knows what network it is on.
observabilify by hothams May 9, 2022
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