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title: Why Your Business Needs Observability
description: Evaluating observability tools can be a daunting task when you’re unfamiliar with key considerations and possibilities. This guide steps through various capabilities for observability tooling and why they matter.
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#### Understand What Matters Most When Evaluating Observability Tools

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Evaluating observability tools can be a daunting task when you’re unfamiliar with key considerations and possibilities.

This guide steps through various capabilities for observability tooling and why they matter. Understand considerations that help you:

- Evaluate how tracing capabilities integrate with your workflow
- Which capabilities lead to faster and more efficient anomaly detection
- How Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and other observability features drive team behaviors and business outcomes

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