AI-powered
podcast player
Listen to all your favourite podcasts with AI-powered features
The New Stack Podcast
What’s Driving the Rising Cost of Observability?
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.
24:55
Episode guests
AI Summary
AI Chapters
Episode notes
Podcast summary created with Snipd AI
Quick takeaways
- Traditional observability tools struggle with the complexity and scale of modern cloud-native systems, increasing costs and inefficiencies.
- The integration of AI in observability presents both opportunities for enhanced insights and challenges with non-deterministic behaviors, necessitating advanced tracking solutions.
Deep dives
Understanding Observability Challenges
Observability has become increasingly crucial yet complex in the realm of cloud-native software development. Three primary categories of tools—logging, monitoring, and Application Performance Monitoring (APM)—each present distinct challenges. Logging tools excel in flexibility but struggle to handle the vast amounts of data in modern systems, making them inefficient for quick answers. Monitoring tools prioritize speed over flexibility, which is problematic in today's dynamic environments that require granular insights, rendering traditional approaches insufficient for effectively managing numerous microservices.
Get the Snipd
podcast app
Unlock the knowledge in podcasts with the podcast player of the future.
AI-powered
Discover
highlights
Listen to the best highlights from the podcasts you love and dive into the full episode
Save any
moment
Hear something you like? Tap your headphones to save it with AI-generated key takeaways
Share
& Export
Send highlights to Twitter, WhatsApp or export them to Notion, Readwise & more
AI-powered
podcast player
Listen to all your favourite podcasts with AI-powered features
Discover
highlights
Listen to the best highlights from the podcasts you love and dive into the full episode