SLOconf Monthly- With Adriana Villela of Lightstep

Topic: Observability Anti-Patterns

Many organizations claim to be all in on Observability, when in fact, they are not really following Observability practices. Over the last couple of years, I’ve observed a number of Observability anti-patterns, and in this talk, I will discuss the following anti-patterns:

1- Traces not treated as a first-class citizen
2- The Wall ’o Dashboards
3- Getting someone else to instrument your code
4- Belief that Observability Tooling == Observability
5- Observability theatre
I will also discuss how to avoid these anti-patterns, in order for teams to unlock Observability’s superpowers. This talk is based on my viral blog post of the same name.