Learning from the Visible Past to Accelerate the Observable Future

Explore the future of observability in cloud-native environments through this 34-minute CNCF webinar. Delve into the challenges and opportunities in DevOps and cloud-native observability, examining how past precedents can guide future technical trends. Learn about the limitations of current approaches, including metrics, logs, and distributed tracing, and discover why OpenTelemetry is just the beginning. Identify underrepresented observability challenges and gain insights from real-world experiences in building and using observability platforms. Examine a proposed observability reference model that outlines the entire problem space and provides a roadmap for future developments. Topics covered include production environment validation, key observability questions, the three dimensions of observability, root cause triage, and scaling observability solutions from single to multiple instances.

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What is Observability
Challenging Trends • Production is the validation environment
Important Questions and considerations
A Taste of the Problem Space
Ingredients or Chocolate Cake First?
Ingredients or Observability First?
Past Reference Models
Three Dimensions (3D) of Observability
One Possible Formalism
The Root Cause Triage Recipe
Slicing the Cake
Custom Sized Slices for Everyone
Getting a Custom Slice
Going from 1 Cake to 1,000 Cakes
Forming the Mold