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Mastering Observability: Top Strategies for Tech Leaders | by Allan Mann
Approvals are working fine. It is the other end of the process that nobody owns.
Oct 9, 2026
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4 min read
An agent's run mode, a CPU bill, a week of redeploys. September was about costs nobody put their name to.
Oct 2, 2026
5 min read
Issue 106. Whole-system profiling, and the cycles on your bill your team never shipped
Sep 25, 2026
Issue 105. What under-instrumenting actually costs you, and how to price yours.
Sep 18, 2026
Issue 104. Agent-driven journeys and the synthetic checks that assume a human.
Sep 11, 2026
The blocker is never the tooling. It is the four arguments nobody schedules.
Sep 4, 2026
Everyone is buying the autonomous layer. August was about the unglamorous thing it stands on.
Sep 1, 2026
Everyone prices the licence. Nobody prices the query log.
Aug 28, 2026
3 min read
Two observability acquisitions in six days. Here is what that means for who owns your telemetry.
Aug 21, 2026
The demo shows you the tower. It never shows you the year underground.
Aug 9, 2026
2 min read
Observability you can act on, whether you build it or lead it, plus the few signals worth your time.
Aug 2, 2026
A governance model for agent actions that fits in your head: decide by blast radius, not confidence.
Jul 26, 2026
The prevention paradox, and the one slide that wins the renewal.
Jul 19, 2026
Not a chatbot and not a script. An AI system that is given a goal and takes the actions to reach it.
Jul 14, 2026
Good tools answer the question for you, until the one they can't. Keep your curiosity muscle warm on purpose.
Jul 12, 2026
The open standard that lets AI agents use your tools and data. What MCP is, why it exists, and its honest limits.
Jul 9, 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
The kernel technology behind zero-code observability, in plain English, and where it stops short.
Jun 26, 2026
The vendor-neutral standard for telemetry, in plain English, and what it does not do for you.
