observability
/əbˌzɜːrvəˈbɪləti/
the degree to which a system's inner behavior can be inferred from what it emits
observability in a sentence
“Tracing gave the pipeline enough observability to find the slow retrieval step.”
Origin of observability
Latin observare to watch over
Related Words
verbosity bias
a judge's tendency to score longer answers higher regardless of quality
evals
systematic tests to measure model performance on specific tasks
LLM-as-a-Judge
using a strong LLM to evaluate the outputs of another model
ground truth
the actual absolute truth or correct answer used for comparison
tracing
recording the flow of execution and data through a complex system
hallucination rate
the frequency with which a model generates incorrect information