Observability helps engineers understand the systems they have built, but it can also help engineers new to a team and even engineers new to tech in general understand the systems they will be working on. This session provides an introduction to observability terms and concepts and tells the story of one platform engineering team’s observability adoption to illustrate those concepts. We will explore how observability creates a learning culture, how every engineer on a team can benefit from observability, and how observability builds a foundation to enable onboarding new engineers more effectively, leveling up engineers, and taking on apprentice engineers.