[ojkelly]

Observability as a shared concept has followed Agile and DevOps.

Something with a real meaning that is enables a step-change is development practices. Adoption is organic initially because the pain it solves is very real.

But as awareness of the idea grows it threatens established institutions and vendors, who must co-opt the concept and redefine it such that they are included.

If they can’t be explicitly included (logs, metrics, traces)[0], then they at least make sure the definition is becomes so vague and confused that they are not explicitly excluded[1].

Wide events and a good means to query them covers everything, but not if you as a vendor cannot store and query wide events.

[0] as the article notes, one of these is not like the other. [1] Is Scrum Agile? What do you mean a standup can’t go for an hour? See also DevOps as a role.