your observability stack is backwards (and costing you £200k)


The Platform Fix Hello Reader— Three weeks ago, I sat with a VP Engineering who'd spent 14 months implementing "modern observability." Datadog for metrics. New Relic for APM. Splunk for logs. Sentry for errors. Grafana for visualisation. Honeycomb for traces. PagerDuty for incidents. Seven tools. £200,000+ annual spend. And when their checkout service went down last Tuesday at 2 AM, they still couldn't find the problem for 6 hours. Why? Because they'd implemented observability backwards. They...