1 year ago

DETROIT — https://www.linkedin.com/in/robskillington/ grandfather was a civil engineer, working in an industry that, in over a century, developed processes and know-how that enabled the creation of buildings, bridges and road. “And I think about observability as that same maturity of engineering practice.

Skillington spoke about the evolution of observability, and his company’s recent donation of an open source project to https://prometheus.io/ in this episode of The New Stack Makers podcast.

Helping observability practices grow as mature and reliable as civil engineering rules that help build sturdy skyscrapers is a tough task, Skillington suggested.

“Basically, it’s kind of like a What You See Is What You Get editor, or WYSIWYG editor, for Prometheus queries,” Skillington said.