Rachel Dines

Dec 14, 2023 | thenewstack.io | Rachel Dines |Richard Gall |Richard MacManus |Frank Emery

In a meeting last year with a bunch of senior observability leaders from cloud native companies, I asked everyone to tell me their least favorite telemetry type: metrics, events, logs, traces or whatever. I was pretty confident the dominant answer would be logs. Nothing against logs, but I had recently heard this group express the hot take that “during an incident, if you’ve gone to the logs, you’ve already failed.”I was wrong. To my surprise, they answered almost unanimously: events.

Dec 7, 2023 | thenewstack.io | Rachel Dines |Andrew Sellers |Darryl Taft |Joe Fay

I’ve seen so many X (formerly known as Twitter), Reddit and HackerNews threads lately discussing the high costs of Datadog. It’s such a hot topic that engineers are posting blogs about their approaches to brute-force drop metrics. But how did we get here? Why are these costs so high? Why are companies paying more for their observability than their production infrastructure? There is a lot of finger-pointing and claims of lock-in and corporate greed, which are certainly partly to blame.

Jul 6, 2023 | chronosphere.io | Jess Lulka |Rachel Dines

While container and cloud technology are increasingly mature, there are still a lot of different software, staffing, and architecture considerations that CTOs must address to ensure that everything runs smoothly and operates together. The Gartner “A CTO’s Guide to Navigating the Cloud Native Container Ecosystem” reportestimates that by 2028, more than 95% of global organizations will be running containerized applications in production, which is a significant increase from fewer than 50% in 2023.

Apr 4, 2023 | chronosphere.io | Paige Cruz |Rachel Dines

It will likely be a scenario familiar to any engineer who has been asked to take a pager and be on-call: The ratio of signal to noise feels completely out of sync, leading to a frustratingly large number of alerts to deal with. This is what we refer to as “monitoring debt.” It’s the hole you dig by not changing how you monitor while you change your technical system. The longer this drift occurs, the less relevant the alert thresholds can become.

Mar 16, 2023 | leaddev.com | Rachel Dines

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