Practical takes on monitoring, observability, and not getting paged at 3am.
New Relic surveyed 1,700 teams. The results: $2M/hour outage costs, 73% without full-stack observability, and a third of engineering time lost to firefighting.
Every post-mortem has the same line: "we should have had monitoring for that." Here's a practical checklist for finding blind spots before they find you.