Observability

Observability is an umbrella term for a number of principles and technologies to get insight in running (distributed) systems. It typically focuses on Metrics, Logging and Tracing, which provide insight in:

• what the application is doing, in particular as part of a larger system, such as microservice environments

• performance of the system

• how the system is used

Open Forms operates in distributed environments, and being able to fully trace a customer request from start to end, observability tools are crucial. Below we provide some additional context for infastructure teams that wish to integrate Open Forms in their observability stack.

Added in version 3.2.0: Open Forms is being fitted with better instrumentation to facilitate vendor-agnostic observability.

Contents

• Logging
• Metrics
• Tracing
• Error monitoring
• Open Telemetry Configuration
• Observing supporting applications

See also

The base integration layer is provided through our shared library, which includes some architecture documentation.