Observability will not fix your broken monitoring
summary
A government migration to a new observability stack leaves the legacy monitor as primary and creates two competing tools with an unmaintained permissions setup, shorter metrics retention (weeks not years), and missing automation. The claim: observability does not magically fix broken monitoring; start by consolidating to a single source of truth, remove false positives, and fix missing or broken metrics. Beware vendor promises, unbounded metric cardinality, flooded disks, and that tracing everything will bankrupt your storage.
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