Summary

As we have emphasized many times in this book, for a successful observability implementation, the organization as a whole needs to be prepared: goals need to be reprioritized, new standards and frameworks need to be introduced, new processes need to be created or existing ones to be adapted, employees need to be trained/retrained, and so on.

Analyze the culture of your organization and find out whether it is clan, control, create, or compete. Use the guidance in this chapter to assess the benefits of observability that are easily supported by the culture of your organization. While reading through, you must have made mental notes on whether you are part of a data-driven organization and whether you have data-literate people who can help in analyzing the data collected from various data sources. You will also need a governance model to help you in developing standards and a framework for observability. All this may sound overwhelming but we never said that observability comes...