Using observability to detangle and understand production

When using tens or hundreds of microservices to provide an application’s critical functionality, diagnosing what interaction between components is causing an outage can be challenging. Engineers spend a lot of time building dashboards to improve monitoring but still spend a lot of time trying to figure out what’s going on and how to fix it when they get paged. Building more dashboards isn’t the solution; you need a new set of strategies to understand your systems. Learn from Liz’s experience working with companies large and small introducing better observability practices to developers and operators.