A modern observability platform is crucial for enterprise technology teams to master complexity and fully understand what's happening in their software and systems. Such a platform excels at curation, cutting down complexity and presenting relevant insights, while also supporting participation through programmability and versatility. It should focus on measuring application performance and surfacing application-performance roadblocks, be adaptable to changing technologies and priorities, deliver full transparency with both high-level and granular views, recognize that nobody knows everything, provide an easy-to-start experience, take a full-stack approach, prioritize speed and precision in alerting and issue resolution, and be open by design through the use of standards and open systems.