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The art of measuring exactly how broken something is, in real time.
means The set of instruments, gauges, or sensors used to measure, monitor, and record how a system is performing.
from Traces back to Latin instrumentum, 'a tool or means of accomplishing something,' itself from instruere, 'to build, equip, or arrange' — a combination of in- ('upon') and struere ('to pile up, build'), the same root that gives us 'structure' and 'construct.' The '-ation' ending turns the tool into the whole practice of outfitting something with tools — so instrumentation is, at its root, the art of equipping a thing so it can be watched.
- origin
- from Latin instrumentum, literally a tool for building
- irony
- adding sensors can itself change the thing measured
- software use
- code that watches code, usually when it fails
- golden rule
- you can't fix what you never measured