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Monitoring Is a Pain

by Mathew Duggan matduggan.com published 2023-06-0916 min read

And we're all doing it wrong (including me) I have a confession. Despite having been hired multiple times in part due to my experience with monitoring platforms, I have come to hate monitoring. Monitoring and observability tools commit the cardinal sin of tricking people into thinking this is an

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