Three Pillars, Zero Answers: Rethinking Observability

Observability has never been more important: the complexity of microservices makes it harder and harder to answer basic questions about system behavior. The conventional wisdom claims that Metrics, Logging and Tracing are “the three pillars” of observability… yet software organizations check these three boxes and are still grasping at straws during emergencies.
In this session, we’ll illustrate the problem with the three pillars: metrics, logs, and traces are just data – they are the fuel, not the car.