For roughly the last ten years, a meaningful percentage of my working hours have been spent thinking about observability. If you're not familiar with the term, "observability" is what we call it now that "monitoring" doesn't sound expensive enough. The actual work is unglamorous in that you collect
All you need is Wide Events, not “Metrics, Logs and Traces”
This quote from Charity Majors is probably the best summary of the current state of observability in the tech industry - a total, mass confusion.
Observability 2.0 — Observability Is About Asking Any Question | alok87.in
For years, the observability industry has been telling developers two contradictory things: "Build reliable systems" and "Log less, it's too expensive." This post is about a different shape of data — wide events — that gives you more answers for less money.
What is Observability (o11y)? And Why Ops Teams Need It Now
Observability for modern ops: correlation across metrics, logs, traces, and events to cut MTTR, curb alert fatigue, and connect service health to business.
Alert-driven monitoring | Documentation
Why we believe alerts, not dashboards, are the real core of infrastructure monitoring and how to build a system you actually trust.
OpenTelemetry: A Guide to Observability with Go | Blog
Modern applications are often complex, distributed systems. Debugging them is not fun: you have to follow requests across services, logs get lost, and metrics are often hard to correlate. It's like looking for a needle in a haystack - except the haystack is on fire, and the needle keeps moving. This is where OpenTelemetry (OTel) can help.
Observable Tools Manifesto
A manifesto for building better observable tools for developers
Lighthouse | Chrome for Developers
Automate web performance audits with Lighthouse
World Monitor — By the time it's news, you already knew.
500+ live feeds, conflict tracking, markets, chokepoints, satellites and AI analysis in one free real-time dashboard. No signup.
Rethinking cloud operations with agentic observability - The Official Microsoft Blog
Cloud operations are entering a new era as AI-driven and autonomous agents become a larger part of modern software systems. As software becomes increasingly agentic, the challenge is no longer just managing greater scale and complexity. Operators must also contend with systems that evolve faster, act more autonomously and interact across an expanding network of...
Observable Notebooks: Fast data exploration and prototyping
Quickly explore and analyze data, build prototype data visualizations, and collaborate with your team in real-time with live JavaScript notebooks.
Inngest - Durable Execution for Workflows & AI
Build reliable background jobs, workflows, and AI agents without extra infrastructure. Automatic retries, flow control, and step-level observability.
Observable Notebooks 2.0 Technology Preview | Observable
The future of notebooks 📓🔮 is here. We’re building the next generation of Observable Notebooks, and we’re excited to share a technology preview that you can start using today. 🚀
Weights & Biases on Twitter / X
Hey MCP developers!Let’s talk about something broken 🧠🛠️Agents are calling tools left and right.But what happens inside those tools?No traces. No visibility. No security.Just a black box. 🕋The observability gap is real. Let's fix it together with observable[.]tools pic.twitter.com/htHmtBaJGH— Weights & Biases (@wandb) April 9, 2025
