How can you predict what data Future-You will need to have gathered to debug an unpredictable problem? (And if you *could* predict the problem, why do you need a fancy debugging tool?)
I hear this a lot, and the answer gets at the heart of the difference btwn monitoring & o11y.
- How can you predict what data Future-You will need to have gathered to debug an unpredictable problem? (And if you *could* predict the problem, why do you need a fancy debugging tool?) I hear this a lot, and the answer gets at the heart of the difference btwn monitoring & o11y.
Monitoring is very much biased towards actionable alerts, and as such it trucks in rapidly identifying the same complex failure conditions repeatedly. Your known-unknowns.