Observability for humans

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Observability for humans

Observability for humans

Dashboards are not a strategy. This session is about the questions on-call humans actually ask: what changed, who is hurting, and can we go back to sleep?

We connect logs, metrics, and traces without drowning in cardinality, and we talk about the social contract of an alert: it must be rarer than the joke you make when it fires.

Title

Observability for humans

Abstract

Dashboards are not a strategy. This session is about the questions on-call humans actually ask: what changed, who is hurting, and can we go back to sleep?

We connect logs, metrics, and traces without drowning in cardinality, and we talk about the social contract of an alert: it must be rarer than the joke you make when it fires.

L'observabilité pour les humains

Un dashboard n’est pas une stratégie. Cette session parle des questions que se posent vraiment les humains d’astreinte : qu’est-ce qui a changé, qui souffre, et est-ce qu’on peut dormir ?

On relie logs, métriques et traces sans se noyer dans la cardinalité, et on discute du contrat social d’une alerte : elle doit rester plus rare que la blague qu’on fait quand elle part.

Title

L'observabilité pour les humains

Abstract

Un dashboard n'est pas une stratégie. Cette session parle des questions que se posent vraiment les humains d'astreinte : qu'est-ce qui a changé, qui souffre, et est-ce qu'on peut dormir ?

On relie logs, métriques et traces sans se noyer dans la cardinalité, et on discute du contrat social d'une alerte : elle doit rester plus rare que la blague qu'on fait quand elle part.

Conferences

2026
1 talks
2025
1 talks

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