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My love for Observability goes beyond words - it's truly unparalleled.
Autonomy shipped as a setting. Settings have owners.
Sep 14, 2026
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5 min read
Issue 104. Agent-driven journeys and the synthetic checks that assume a human.
Sep 11, 2026
Google and Microsoft shipped a way for websites to hand agents a list of tools. Your scripted checks assume a user with eyes.
Sep 8, 2026
7 min read
Build the proof yourself, for free, and let it do the arguing.
Sep 6, 2026
The blocker is never the tooling. It is the four arguments nobody schedules.
Sep 4, 2026
4 min read
Everyone is buying the autonomous layer. August was about the unglamorous thing it stands on.
Sep 1, 2026
The tooling has been fine for years. The blocker is the agreement: what counts as a journey, who owns it, and whether the estate data can be trusted.
Aug 30, 2026
6 min read
Dynatrace built a mode with no human in the loop. Read its own safeguards and the gate is still there. It moved.
Aug 29, 2026
One tells you when something you expected breaks. The other lets you ask why, and what else, when something you did not expect breaks.
2 min read
Everyone prices the licence. Nobody prices the query log.
Aug 28, 2026
3 min read
Everyone demos the reasoning. Nobody demos what the agent does to your data layer, or what happens when it hits the rate limit mid-incident.
Aug 23, 2026
Most observability consolidation programmes start with the wrong question. Here is the one that actually protects you.
Aug 16, 2026
A practitioner's honest field notes on trust, openness, and why AI will not save a broken estate.
Aug 10, 2026
An industry now exists to shave the observability invoice. That is financial engineering. The real fix is deciding what each signal is for.
Jul 12, 2026
The moment an AI agent acts, someone owns the outcome. Most teams have not said who.
Jul 5, 2026
Strip away the vendor gloss and the message from the floor was steady, honest, and unglamorous.
Jul 3, 2026
A single map of the tools, and the honest catch on every piece.
Jul 1, 2026
1 min read
The open-source standard for metrics, in plain English, and where it stops.
The dashboard layer that ties your observability together, and what it is not.
Grafana's logs backend, in plain English, and the trade-off at its heart.
The tracing backend behind your traces, in plain English, and where OpenTelemetry fits.
Operational judgement you can act on, whether you build it or lead it, plus the few signals worth your time. Starting with the deal that merged security and observability.
One style won't survive pressure. Your job is choosing the right mode at the right moment.
Jun 30, 2026
Exit time belongs on the board beside RTO and RPO. Most teams have never measured it.
Jun 28, 2026
Vendors sell autonomous operations. The Bank of England found that 2% of AI use cases run fully autonomously. That gap is correct, and here is how to climb it.
Jun 7, 2026
9 min read
