Observability for Rails: Logs, Traces, and the One Metric We Watch
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Noisy logs hide incidents. Good observability ties HTTP requests, jobs, and business events into a story you can debug at 2am.
What you'll learn
- Structured fields we always include
- Correlating web and background work
- Picking one north-star metric per critical path
Next steps
If you can’t answer “what failed for this user?” in two minutes, invest in correlation IDs first.