Have You Heard of O11ywashing?
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If you’ve never heard the term before, 1) where have you been, and 2) it’s essentially when vendors rename their monitoring tools to “observability” to position themselves better in the market, which leaves you—the poor customer—with a watered-down version of what you could get. High-cardinality context? Nope. Visualizations beyond dashboards? Nooope. Event-based pricing? Nope nope nope. So, how do you make sure you get observability when you’re paying observability prices? 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