Define: "Observability" in Business
Multi-headcount capital waste
"Refuse the dashboard. Raw packet captures and grep commands are the only observability you will ever need."
The practice of measuring the internal states of a system by examining its outputs to proactively manage performance and uptime.
What does "Observability" actually mean?
"Rebranding basic syslog monitoring so a vendor can charge us ten times more for a dashboard that still will not tell us why the peers dropped."
"Enhancing our cloud observability is a key strategic initiative for the engineering team this year."
"We spent half our budget on a new observability platform, only to discover the outage by checking Twitter like everyone else."
By The Chief Waste Officer
18 years in the corporate trenches quantifying waste so you don't have to.
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