SREcon22 APAC - Observability Is Not Analytics!

Observability Is Not Analytics!

Andrew Cowie

Implementing observability was a game-changer. We dramatically reduced our time to identify problems, isolate causes, and see effects of changes.

But it's not quite as easy to retrofit as we might like to think. Brooks taught us to be wary of doing things over, but we couldn't safely make even basic changes to the existing codebase. Being able to do observability at all was a major motivation for a massive re-engineering. We'll share lessons …

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