The Curious Incident of the Log in the Downtime

Software is full of mysteries: why is our website suddenly responding slowly? Are our emails getting delivered? Where is all this traffic coming from? In well-instrumented systems, the answers to those questions are only a few clicks away… but in systems with poor observability, a serious production incident can turn the most seasoned engineers into detectives, hunting for clues and trying to figure out how they fit together…

But what if detective stories can teach us something about systems monitoring? Join Dylan Beattie and some of fiction’s greatest detectives, from Sherlock Holmes and Columbo to Dr. House and Batman, for an offbeat look at the world of observability,

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