Embedded engineers regularly encounter failures that are difficult to reproduce despite using the same firmware image throughout testing. A system may pass hundreds of test cycles before a watchdog reset occurs, a communication stack may hang only after many hours of operation, or a latency spike may appear intermittently and then disappear in subsequent runs. Continuous observability (CO) extends the audit trail into runtime execution. Rather than treating observability solely as a debugging technique, it becomes an ongoing capability that captures execution data throughout development, integration, testing, and validation.

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