In DevOps, especially on the Ops side of the house, it seems you can’t outrun this Observability term, but what is it? Monitoring with a new name? A marketing gimmick for new infrastructure tools? Something about dynamic linear systems? And why should I care? And if I do care, how do I get started?

This 5 minute talk will introduce what Observability is, convince you to care, and give you some starting points and guidelines to think about as you get started with a slide reserved for “where to go from here”. Or better yet: let’s Open Space about that.