How do you configure observability for a pipeline in Foundry Aware?

• A. Only enable dashboards.
• B. Enable logging, metrics, dashboards, and alerting; track KPIs like latency, throughput, error rates.
• C. Ignore metrics.
• D. Disable logging.

Answer: (B)

Observability for a pipeline means having visibility into how it performs and where issues arise so you can detect, understand, and respond to problems quickly. In Foundry Aware you achieve this by turning on logging, metrics, dashboards, and alerting, and by actively tracking KPIs such as latency, throughput, and error rates. Logging captures what happened at each step, including events and exceptions, providing the detailed records needed to diagnose problems. Metrics give quantitative signals—how long processing takes, how many items flow through the system, and how often failures occur—so you can measure performance and detect trends. Dashboards bring those metrics and logs together in visual formats, letting you quickly assess current health and historical patterns. Alerting automatically notifies you when something crosses thresholds or shows anomalies, enabling proactive response before issues escalate. If you skip metrics or ignore alerts, you lose the ability to quantify performance and respond quickly; if you only enable dashboards or disable logging, you lack the underlying data needed to troubleshoot. By enabling all four and tracking KPIs, you establish a complete, actionable view of pipeline health.