What is Observability? Fireside Chat with Industry Experts

In this fireside chat, we discuss observability with two industry experts who have lived through the joys of troubleshooting production apps late at night and incident retrospectives - Caitlin Halla and Mike Simon. We explore what observability really means, how it differs from monitoring, and the challenges teams face when adopting it. They share their career paths into observability, practical examples of solving issues using observability tools, and why tools like OpenTelemetry are so important.

TOC:
00:00 Introduction
00:10 Fireside Chat summary
03:41 Guest introductions
05:31 Career path into observability
09:12 Monitoring vs. observability
13:22 Common challenges of observability
17:03 Tool rationalization
22:38 Importance of OpenTelemetry
25:23 Exciting trends in observability
29:37 Advice for implementing observability
31:28 Conclusion