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Observability in the AI-Native Era
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"We used to have 1,000 dashboards! Now we are down to 50!" is how a successful observability transformation story ends. But it often starts very differently!
"Can our monitoring tool set 10,000 custom thresholds?" is a question I have heard more than once. The answer is "Yes! But why do you have this requirement? Where does it come from?"
Static thresholds were great on static infrastructure. When having 3 database production servers, 5 applications, and 2 web-servers, it made sense to set static thresholds on CPU, memory, garbage collection, worker thread, and connection pool utilization. IT operators knew those machines well. They probably gave them some easy-to-remember names such as sql-prod-1, app-frontend-4, or ws-lb-2. Traffic to those applications hosted on those servers was predictable and stable. Therefore, setting static thresholds was a good solution to get alerted in case one of those servers wasn&apos...