Reflections on Monitorama 2019
Blog post from Honeycomb
Attending Monitorama for the third consecutive year, the author highlights the engaging atmosphere and the ongoing discussions that follow the event, focusing on talks by Luke Demi and Nida Farrukh. Demi's presentation at the conference emphasized the importance of context in observability, using Coinbase's journey with different vendors as an example, while Farrukh underscored the potential for postmortem analyses of outages to drive positive changes within engineering teams. Monitorama serves as a reflection of the evolving monitoring and observability industry, transitioning from no observability talks in 2017 to multiple discussions in subsequent years, signifying a maturation in focus. The author also notes contributions from Christine and Liz Fong-Jones on the topic, demonstrating the broader industry's shift toward a more comprehensive understanding of observability practices.