https://www.linkedin.com/in/martinmao/ Observability is one of the hottest topics in the technology world, but it is not new. The term dates back to 1960, when Rudolf E. Kalman described the concept of observability in the context of control theory.

Observability also allows developers to produce high cardinality data to better deal with the scale and complexity of cloud native.

As the world goes cloud native, observability will surpass APM as the dominant solution.

Similarly, Gen 2 monitoring vendors are “observability washing” by adding support for the https://chronosphere.io/learn/are-the-three-pillars-of-observability-still-relevant/: logs, traces, and metrics, adding new pricing and packaging options, and rebranding themselves as “cloud” and “observability.”

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