Comment by reactordev
Comment by reactordev 3 days ago
Mmmmmmm, the last 8 months of my life wrapped into a blog post but with an ad on the end. Excellent. Basically the same findings as me, my team, and everyone else in the space.
Not being sarcastic at all, it’s tricky. I like that the article called out eBPF and why you would want to disable it for speed but recommends caution. I kept hearing from executives a “single pane of glass” marketing speak and I kept my mouth shut about how that isn’t feasible across the entire organization. Needless to say, they didn’t like that non-answer and so I was canned. What an engineer cared about is different from organization/business metrics and often the two were confused.
I wrote a lot of great otel receivers though. VMware, Veracode, Hashicorp Vault, GitLab, Jenkins, Jira, and the platforms itself.
> I kept hearing from executives a “single pane of glass” marketing speak
It's really unfortunate that Observability vendors lean into this to reinforce it too. What the execs usually care about is engineering workflows consolidating and allowing teams to all "speak the same language" in terms of data, analysis workflows, visualizations, runbooks, etc.
This goal is admirable, but nearly impossible to achieve because it's the exact same problem as solving "we are aligned organizationally", which no organization ever is.
That doesn't mean progress can't be made, but it's always far more complicated than they would like.