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
How does it feel to be watched at work all the time?
Many more firms are monitoring and analysing employee communications and behaviour. Does it work?
Modern work requires attention. Constant alerts steal it - Stack Overflow
Attention—the time and freedom to focus—is your team’s most valuable resource.
Lighthouse | Chrome for Developers
Automate web performance audits with Lighthouse
World Monitor — By the time it's news, you already knew.
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Grady Booch on Twitter / X
Let’s be very clear: there is value in automating tedious and repetitive and dangerous tasks; there is value in delegating certain work to our machines that can do the work tirelessly and much faster.But at the same time, let us remember that there is value in the activity of…— Grady Booch (@Grady_Booch) October 3, 2026
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...
Taming the agentic influx: a blueprint for AI business observability
API analyst Kin Lane tells The New Stack why business observability, FinOps, and MCP governance are essential to managing runaway AI spend in the enterprise.
