Modern software teams are drowning in data yet still flying blind when things break.
Logs scattered across tools. Dashboards that don’t connect the dots. Alerts that wake you at 3 AM but don’t explain why your app failed. Traditional observability promised answers, but for many developers, it’s delivered more noise than insight.
This ebook explores how a developer-first approach to observability helps teams move beyond reactive firefighting and toward proactive, strategic development without burning out the people building the software.
Drawing on insights from Carlos Casanova, Principal Analyst at Forrester Research, this guide shows how observability done right gives developers the context they need and covers:
- Why traditional observability tools fall short in modern, distributed systems
- How over-collecting data increases costs without improving outcomes
- What “developer-first observability” really means — and why it matters
- How to embed observability into development instead of bolting it on later