Most content comparing monitoring and observability stays at the definitional level: three pillars, metrics versus traces, known and unknown unknowns. This session skips that and looks at the operational side instead.
Kris Buytaert (Percona) and Blerim Sheqa (Icinga) walk through what it actually takes to run each approach — how long it takes to get the first useful data, what can and cannot be covered, where the configuration lives and who owns it, and how much engineering time goes into keeping it working month after month. A second thread: what changes with scale, from a 50-host environment to a 5,000-host enterprise.
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