Observability strategy is a tricky concept. Everyone wants to talk about it, but nobody can agree on how they’re talking about it. Consequently, we end up talking past each other without even realizing it.
I like to think of this as a multifaceted spectrum, built up of trade-offs; You pick somewhere on a spectrum in a few different areas, and then you figure out how to optimize the trade-offs, and slowly your strategy emerges from there.
That works up to a point, but then you’ll hit a strategy cliff, usually around three years of…
