What are monitoring and observability?

Use the monitoring vs observability explorer to understand the core difference between these two practices.

The explorer shows a scenario: a web application is running slowly. Step through how monitoring detects the problem (alerts fire, dashboards turn red, you know WHAT is broken) and how observability helps you diagnose it (traces, logs, and correlated metrics reveal WHY it's broken).

Click through the scenario to see how monitoring tells you "latency is high" while observability lets you trace a request through the full call chain to find the root cause.

Question: What is the core difference between monitoring and observability?