No-Nonsense Observability Improvement
Talkat KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2019 · on Tuesday, 2019-11-19· at 11:50· Room 17AB - San Diego Convention Center, Mezzanine Level·
summary
Six practical moves: promote the work so leadership and teams see wins; teach the basics with hands-on onboarding and follow-up practice; run game days, load and chaos tests to stretch systems and feed telemetry back into resilience work; measure usage by service/team/region (Stripe cut metrics 50% year‑over‑year, Twitter saw 99.8% of metrics never read) to justify cost and guide chargeback; track incidents beyond MTTR/MTTD (surprises, near misses); instrument every change (deploys, flags, automation) for fast feedback.
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chapters (6)
- 0:00Introduction
- 2:30Why we observe
- 7:23How to improve
- 11:54Stretching
- 14:22Measuring Usage
- 19:01Tracking Need
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