Beyond The Dashboard: Making Observability The Engine Of Action In Platform Engineering
Platform Engineering, Monday, September 8th, 2025
Not a decade ago, we in the cloud-native and DevOps communities were busy planting our flags on the summit of observability.
We got the three pillars - metrics, logs and traces - stitched into our tech stack, surrounded by a constellation of CNCF projects. Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Fluentd. observability suddenly became foundational to modern software delivery. Conference talks, blog posts and hiring wishlists echoed the refrain: 'You can't manage what you can't measure.'
And yet, here we are in 2025, drowning in dashboards, buried under a tidal wave of alerts, and still getting blindsided by incidents. We're observing more, but are we acting any smarter?