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IS IT TIME TO VERSION OBSERVABILITY? (SIGNS POINT TO YES)

charity.wtf17 min read

Summary from the TLDR newsletter

The observability industry has stuck to metrics, logs, and traces over the years because they describe the daily reality for engineers. While the language used to describe the problems and solutions has evolved, the solutions are still largely the same as they were a decade ago. While they have massively improved, they're structurally variations on the same pre-aggregated metrics. It's now getting harder and harder to speak clearly about different approaches and solutions - a problem semantic versioning was made to solve.