O11y Guide: Cloud Native Observability Pitfalls - Sneaky Sprawling Mess

Are you looking at your organization's efforts to enter or expand into the cloud native landscape and feeling a bit daunted by the vast expanse of information surrounding cloud native observability? 

When you're moving so fast with agile practices across your DevOps, SRE's, and platform engineering teams, it's no wonder this can seem a bit confusing. 

Unfortunately, the choices being made have a great impact on both your business, your budgets, and the ultimate success of your cloud native initiatives that hasty decisions up front lead to big headaches very quickly down the road.

In the previous article, we looked at the pain we are facing when led down proprietary paths for our cloud native observability solutions. In this last article in my series, I'll address the sneaky sprawling mess that  often develops in our cloud native observability tooling landscape. By sharing common pitfalls in this series, the hope is that we can learn from them.

O11y Guide: Cloud Native Observability Pitfalls - The Protocol Jungle

Are you looking at your organization's efforts to enter or expand into the cloud native landscape and feeling a bit daunted by the vast expanse of information surrounding cloud native observability? 

When you're moving so fast with agile practices across your DevOps, SRE's, and platform engineering teams, it's no wonder this can seem a bit confusing. 

Unfortunately, the choices being made have a great impact on both your business, your budgets, and the ultimate success of your cloud native initiatives that hasty decisions up front lead to big headaches very quickly down the road.

In the previous article, we discussed why so many practitioners are underestimating their existing landscape within cloud native observability solutions. In this article, I'll share insights into the maze that is the protocol jungle and how it's causing us pain. By sharing common pitfalls in this series, the hope is that we can learn from them.

O11y Guide: Cloud Native Observability Pitfalls - Ignoring Existing Landscape

Are you looking at your organization's efforts to enter or expand into the cloud native landscape and feeling a bit daunted by the vast expanse of information surrounding cloud native observability? 

When you're moving so fast with agile practices across your DevOps, SRE's, and platform engineering teams, it's no wonder this can seem a bit confusing. 

Unfortunately, the choices being made have a great impact on both your business, your budgets, and the ultimate success of your cloud native initiatives that hasty decisions up front lead to big headaches very quickly down the road.

In the previous article, we looked at the problem of underestimating cardinality in our cloud native observability solutions. Now it's time to move on to another common mistake organizations make, that of ignoring our existing landscape. By sharing common pitfalls in this series, the hope is that we can learn from them.