Microservices Platforms - part 5: Observability platform

This is the fifth article in a series based on my QCon San Francisco 2025 talk Microservices Platforms: When Team Topologies Meets Microservices Patterns. The articles in the series are:

• Microservices Platforms - part 1: Overview
• Microservices Platforms - part 2: Service foundation platform
• Microservices Platforms - part 3: Security platform
• Microservices Platforms - part 4: Infrastructure services platform
• Microservices Platforms - part 5: Observability platform

This article describes the Observability platform, which simplifies the development of observable microservices - services whose behavior and usage can be understood by their teams. It explains how a platform group provides shared observability capabilities that enable service teams to focus on their core domain responsibilities.