Avoiding pitfalls of observability
We have identified several areas throughout this book where you need to sit down and think about your approach. All of these considerations contribute to your ongoing success with your observability platform. We will now call out a few of these, with some guidelines to follow:
- Treat your platform as an evolving development; start with the basics and build upon that, continuously reviewing where you are. Reducing the time to value will ensure return on investment is being realized.
- Collect requirements from multiple customers and then plan a roadmap that will deliver more value to more users to ensure the adoption and support of your platform.
- Monitor costs, paying close attention to the data collection stage, where it is cheaper to fix. Use your observability tools to help.
- Fix cardinality early, and develop standards that teams can work to that will control the problem. Additionally, you can apply governance that restricts data...
