The video here is a quick walk-through with visuals to help anyone who is frustrated with “I have data but don’t know why it broke!”
If you somehow got here directly from the video, this is meant as a helper to the deeper dives in these posts.
Read the long versions
- What can you know about your systems? — the baseline, where the three personas come from.
- How people approach Datadog — frictionless agents, a bill split across six budgets nobody owns.
- How people approach Grafana — the free dashboard already in the building; schema-on-write four times over.
- How people approach Observe — the Snowflake data-lake bet: no silos, a modeling tax instead.