An Intellyx Brain Blog for Chronosphere by Eric Newcomer
“”In this blog, learn why observability approaches designed for monolithic computing don’t actually work for cloud native microservices.”
Having too much observability data can be like having too much rain.
Too much observability data can impact your network, increase your expenses, flood your data stores, and make it really hard to see how your applications are performing, or what caused an outage.
This can happen when moving from traditional, monolithic applications to microservices, as happened to us at Citigroup. Traditional observability tools are engineered for monoliths, not microservices.
For a monolithic application (or set of monolithic applications), the observability scope is the monolith you’re observing.
But observability approaches designed for monolithic computing don’t work for cloud native microservices, as we discovered when we began re-engineering our monolithic applications. The steady rain of observability data becomes a downpour and you end up with an unmanageable flood of data.
