Troubleshooting software requires observability: We need to collect and analyze telemetry to formulate, disprove or validate hypotheses about why our software is behaving differently than we wanted.
Generative AI is growing to accompany us through the journey, and has the potential for it to take over more toil — especially with troubleshooting.
The Iterative Nature of Observability
A system is observable if we can figure out what it is doing based on data (telemetry) it emits. There’s many types of telemetry, called signals. The most…








