More Dashboards Is Not Observability
Observability is the ability to answer production questions fast, not the number of panels on a wall.
Production idea
Golden signals, traces, logs, metrics, correlation, and checkout questions.
kubectl logs deploy/checkoutkubectl top podskubectl describe svc checkout- Write the questions before building dashboards.
- Track errors, latency, traffic, and saturation.
- Link traces to logs and deployment versions.
- Delete panels that do not change decisions.