Three Ways My Observability Stack Broke on Day Two
The monitoring stack I deployed yesterday started lying to me within 24 hours. Here’s how I chased down three separate failures in one morning.
Openobserve
Observability Everywhere: Deploying the Stack and Immediately Finding Problems
Rolled out OpenObserve + OTel Collectors across nine hosts today, upgraded from v0.14.7 to v0.70.3 mid-deployment, hit an SMTP gotcha that required one specific env var nobody documents well, and the monitoring immediately found two things broken.