Observe

In a similar way to Honeycomb being “a great way to store and retrieve telemetry”, someone noticed that Snowflake was a great way to store and retrieve telemetry. Observe was born out of that concept, has one datastore with everything poured into it and shaped on the way through. No silos is the whole pitch.

In this post I’m using the persona frame from the baseline post and walking the same three people through Observe.

Each observability tool tends to lead users toward a specific workflow. In the same way that working with computers on Windows or MacOS has very different starting points, Logs, Metrics, and Traces each have several entry points.

I want to dig into the benefits and drawbacks of each default workflow.