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Return on Investment Driven Observability

Software Engineering 2023-03-24 v1

Abstract

Observability, in cloud native systems, is the capability to continuously generate and discover actionable insights, based on signals from the system under observation. How do you know what insights are the most useful ones? What signals should you be using to generate insights? This article discusses challenges arising when rolling out observability in organizations and how you can, based on Return on Investment (RoI) analysis, address said challenges.

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@article{arxiv.2303.13402,
  title  = {Return on Investment Driven Observability},
  author = {Michael Hausenblas},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2303.13402},
  year   = {2023}
}

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5 pages, 1 figure

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