On Versioning Observabilities (1.0, 2.0, 3.0…10.0?!?)

I spent some time recently catching up on my #to-read saves in Obsidian. More than a few of these were blog posts from 2024 about software observability. Talk of "redefining observability", "observability 2.0", and "try Honeycomb" had caught my eye in a few spaces, and so I had been hoarding links on the topic. After spending a few days immersing myself in those articles and branching out to others, I decided to write this bullet-form roundup.

What Observability 2.0 means in practice, how wide events replace siloed metrics/logs/traces, and why GreptimeDB is purpose-built as the database foundation.

The "three pillars" are a lie that keep good engineers trapped inside a mental model from the 1980s, paying outrageous sums of money for tooling that can't keep up with the complexity of modern systems.