The Modern Observability Roundtable: AI, Rising Costs and OpenTelemetry

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…