Practical takes on monitoring, observability, and not getting paged at 3am.
The hidden cost isn't license fees - it's the gaps between tools that nobody owns.
Alert fatigue isn't about volume. It's about monitors nobody owns, thresholds nobody chose, and alerts nobody feels responsible for fixing.
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.