Event
A change event such as a pod restart, deployment, or config flag toggle.
Definition
An event is primarily a change event — for example, a pod restart, a new deployment, or a configuration flag change. Events are important because they represent external changes to system state and help engineers correlate incidents with the metrics, traces, and logs that surround them.
In depth
Events differ from logs in that they typically describe discrete state transitions rather than continuous activity streams. Deployment events, auto-scaling decisions, certificate renewals, and feature flag toggles are all examples. Overlaying events on time-series charts allows engineers to instantly spot when a metric degraded relative to a change event. obseria.io captures events from Kubernetes (pod restarts, deployments), CI/CD systems, and custom webhooks, automatically surfacing them as annotations on dashboards.
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