Is the term “observability” still productive? When it first entered common parlance around 2017, it was instructive in differentiating itself from traditional infrastructure and application monitoring. Back when applications were a bit more static, SREs would set up “monitors” on their critical applications, and receive alerts when certain thresholds were crossed e.g. an unwanted CPU spike, a customer-facing latency concern, and perhaps an entire service being knocked offline.
But what modern observability solutions are trying to…
