The New Stack Podcast What’s Driving the Rising Cost of Observability?
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Jan 30, 2025 Christine Yen, Co-founder and CEO of Honeycomb.io, discusses the rising costs of observability in modern cloud-native systems. She highlights how traditional logging and monitoring tools struggle to cope with today's software complexities, leading to inefficiencies. Yen emphasizes the need for innovative solutions that prioritize user experience, like Service Level Objectives (SLOs). She also explores the role of AI and OpenTelemetry in addressing these challenges, showcasing the potential for enhanced insights in software management.
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Flaws in Traditional Observability Tools
- Traditional logging, monitoring, and APM tools each have fatal flaws in the cloud-native era.
- Logging lacks scalability, monitoring lacks flexibility, and APMs struggle with polyglot microservices.
Why Observability Costs Are Rising
- Modern software scale and complexity drive up observability costs.
- Traditional tools charge more for granular, flexible metrics needed by today's engineering practices.
Choose Modern Observability Tools
- Use flexible, cost-effective observability tools that handle complexity without punishing teams.
- Avoid cutting essential data needed to track business impact despite cost worries.