The three pillars of observability
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December 13, 2024 at 4:49 AM
The three pillars of observability
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Vercel Observability—now generally available and free on all plans.
Observability delivers framework-aware insights, helping you optimize cost, usage, and performance.
Also available: Observability Plus. Extended retention, advanced metrics, and Monitoring.
vercel.com/changelog/ve...
Observability delivers framework-aware insights, helping you optimize cost, usage, and performance.
Also available: Observability Plus. Extended retention, advanced metrics, and Monitoring.
vercel.com/changelog/ve...
Vercel Observability is now generally available - Vercel
Observability is now available to all Vercel customers, delivering insights to optimize infrastructure and application performance.
vercel.com
December 12, 2024 at 8:07 PM
Vercel Observability—now generally available and free on all plans.
Observability delivers framework-aware insights, helping you optimize cost, usage, and performance.
Also available: Observability Plus. Extended retention, advanced metrics, and Monitoring.
vercel.com/changelog/ve...
Observability delivers framework-aware insights, helping you optimize cost, usage, and performance.
Also available: Observability Plus. Extended retention, advanced metrics, and Monitoring.
vercel.com/changelog/ve...
Observability Engineering, Second Edition has now gone to production!!!!
March 28, 2026 at 4:28 AM
Observability Engineering, Second Edition has now gone to production!!!!
"Vibe coders when asked about security, observability, concurrency, data loss, and why the database is publicly reachable:"
[Big Ed]
[Big Ed]
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September 18, 2026 at 1:57 PM
"Vibe coders when asked about security, observability, concurrency, data loss, and why the database is publicly reachable:"
[Big Ed]
[Big Ed]
Love that his company sells "data observability."
Andy Byron, you've been observed.
That's commitment to product?
Andy Byron, you've been observed.
That's commitment to product?
July 17, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Love that his company sells "data observability."
Andy Byron, you've been observed.
That's commitment to product?
Andy Byron, you've been observed.
That's commitment to product?
You see, it turns out observability is pretty useless because it doesn’t do anything.
Yet... Somehow? It’s this thing that we’ve been able to grow into a multi billion dollar industry composed entirely out of “get a bunch of data, and then…”
That’s it??
hazelweakly.me/blog/the-fut...
Yet... Somehow? It’s this thing that we’ve been able to grow into a multi billion dollar industry composed entirely out of “get a bunch of data, and then…”
That’s it??
hazelweakly.me/blog/the-fut...
The Future of Observability: Observability 3.0 | Hazel Weakly
Observability, so hot right now. Over the years, we’ve seen observability go from an unknown concept to a ubiquitious phrase that everyone is desperate to stamp...
hazelweakly.me
December 17, 2024 at 5:14 PM
You see, it turns out observability is pretty useless because it doesn’t do anything.
Yet... Somehow? It’s this thing that we’ve been able to grow into a multi billion dollar industry composed entirely out of “get a bunch of data, and then…”
That’s it??
hazelweakly.me/blog/the-fut...
Yet... Somehow? It’s this thing that we’ve been able to grow into a multi billion dollar industry composed entirely out of “get a bunch of data, and then…”
That’s it??
hazelweakly.me/blog/the-fut...
Why is observability so hard to do well - and so expensive, in general? What is "Observability 2.0" and is Open Telemetry any good? With @mipsytipsy.bsky.social
Watch it here:
YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvEj...
Apple: podcasts.apple.com/nl/podcast/o...
Spotify: youtu.be/SvEjS4-2WJQ
Watch it here:
YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvEj...
Apple: podcasts.apple.com/nl/podcast/o...
Spotify: youtu.be/SvEjS4-2WJQ
January 22, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Why is observability so hard to do well - and so expensive, in general? What is "Observability 2.0" and is Open Telemetry any good? With @mipsytipsy.bsky.social
Watch it here:
YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvEj...
Apple: podcasts.apple.com/nl/podcast/o...
Spotify: youtu.be/SvEjS4-2WJQ
Watch it here:
YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvEj...
Apple: podcasts.apple.com/nl/podcast/o...
Spotify: youtu.be/SvEjS4-2WJQ
ok, uhhh i've got like 3 more hours in the sky club to kill. every like == 1 hot take about observability
November 22, 2024 at 5:25 AM
ok, uhhh i've got like 3 more hours in the sky club to kill. every like == 1 hot take about observability
for your roadside observability needs
February 24, 2025 at 7:35 PM
for your roadside observability needs
Observability without queries is just sparkling data storage
October 23, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Observability without queries is just sparkling data storage
LACK OF OBSERVABILITY STRIKES AGAIN!!
From a dev at Big Tech: “3 devs across 3 teams are stuck for a month on a build problem that’s caused by connections resetting between two gateways and a messaging queue.
I cannot solve it because I’m blocked access to the other 2 teams’ systems.
I cannot see AI solving this.”
I cannot solve it because I’m blocked access to the other 2 teams’ systems.
I cannot see AI solving this.”
October 17, 2025 at 5:14 PM
LACK OF OBSERVABILITY STRIKES AGAIN!!
Observability day is a go! I’m speaking today at kubecon on an observability panel. So OBVIOUSLY, I had to dress for the occasion
November 12, 2024 at 4:38 PM
Observability day is a go! I’m speaking today at kubecon on an observability panel. So OBVIOUSLY, I had to dress for the occasion
Tests tell us our software can work.
Observability tells us our software IS working.
Observability tells us our software IS working.
August 3, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Tests tell us our software can work.
Observability tells us our software IS working.
Observability tells us our software IS working.
I'll have @mipsytipsy.bsky.social on The Pragmatic Engineer Podcast, and we'll talk observability.
What would you like to ask?
What would you like to ask?
December 2, 2024 at 4:48 PM
I'll have @mipsytipsy.bsky.social on The Pragmatic Engineer Podcast, and we'll talk observability.
What would you like to ask?
What would you like to ask?
They are taking away our monitoring and observability
October 8, 2025 at 7:32 PM
They are taking away our monitoring and observability
Datadog, Honeycomb, and Giraffeana are all animal-based Observability products.
Is there a vegan option?
Is there a vegan option?
March 27, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Datadog, Honeycomb, and Giraffeana are all animal-based Observability products.
Is there a vegan option?
Is there a vegan option?
In the Observability Land of the Blind, the one-eyed DevOp running Nagios is king.
July 8, 2025 at 5:41 PM
In the Observability Land of the Blind, the one-eyed DevOp running Nagios is king.
(But also we're solving the very hardest version of the problem, where we're shipping appliances without traditional observability, and the system drives upgrades forward to newer versions of itself)
September 26, 2026 at 5:35 PM
(But also we're solving the very hardest version of the problem, where we're shipping appliances without traditional observability, and the system drives upgrades forward to newer versions of itself)
Observability meets voyeurism
“does buttplug support otel?” is a real question i just asked myself, i need to log the fuck off
July 16, 2026 at 4:32 PM
Observability meets voyeurism
I wish more people would address this as an executive problem.
No logging, no moderation, no observability, ... Palworld has more security.
For decades people (like me) could cause entire outages in entire regions. Jail or fired if I did. In most of these scenarios, some mechanism should stop me.
No logging, no moderation, no observability, ... Palworld has more security.
For decades people (like me) could cause entire outages in entire regions. Jail or fired if I did. In most of these scenarios, some mechanism should stop me.
An OpenAI system has gone rogue again – and it is the most panic-inducing yet
An OpenAI system has gone rogue again – and it is the most panic-inducing yet
‘Our models took actions we did not intend,’ ChatGPT maker admits after latest outrage
trib.al
September 24, 2026 at 5:36 PM
I wish more people would address this as an executive problem.
No logging, no moderation, no observability, ... Palworld has more security.
For decades people (like me) could cause entire outages in entire regions. Jail or fired if I did. In most of these scenarios, some mechanism should stop me.
No logging, no moderation, no observability, ... Palworld has more security.
For decades people (like me) could cause entire outages in entire regions. Jail or fired if I did. In most of these scenarios, some mechanism should stop me.
I swore I was never going to write another book but I can't think of better people to break that promise to than @charity.wtf and @lizthegrey.com. observability engineering, 2nd edition, is out today!
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Honeycomb’s O’Reilly Book Observability Engineering, 2nd Ed.
Let authors Charity Majors, Liz Fong-Jones, George Miranda, and Austin Parker explain how to apply Observability successfully in your organization.
go.hny.co
June 17, 2026 at 1:22 PM
I swore I was never going to write another book but I can't think of better people to break that promise to than @charity.wtf and @lizthegrey.com. observability engineering, 2nd edition, is out today!
go.hny.co/4ex1QUx
go.hny.co/4ex1QUx