O’Reilly Report: Cloud Native Monitoring

The monitoring and observability landscape has changed greatly over the past three to five years. System architectures are sufficiently different from their pre–cloud native counterparts to demand a new paradigm, born from radically rethinking, as an industry, how we build and implement m onitoring systems.

To refine our focus and make a discernible impact, our thinking about cloud native monitoring must pivot away from the “three pil‐ lars” and toward the “three phases of observability” we’ve outlined in this report. These three phases allow for a goal-driven, pragmatic approach to cloud native monitoring that emphasizes remediating problems and improving business outcomes.