Synopsis
Three engineers running production systems
in three cities decide to build the tool
their dashboards refuse to be.
Observatory is an observability platform that does not flatten the data into a chart your CFO can read. It collects metrics, logs, and traces. It stores them at full resolution. It lets you ask questions that your existing vendor charges you to even consider.
What follows is not a product launch. It is the document of a quiet rebellion against the tooling that treats engineers as a customer segment instead of a peer group.
Now showing
Three scenes.
A maintainer is awake because the system is awake. The dashboards she pays for are smiling at her. She has stopped trusting them.
A platform team finds the vendor invoice on a Friday. It is a number large enough to argue about. They do not renew. They open a repository instead.
A graph that has been lying for six weeks tells the truth for the first time. There is no ceremony. The maintainer screenshots it and goes back to sleep.
Credits
With
Direction
Anika Patil
Direction
Diego Reyes
Direction
Morgan Yates
Cinematography
Public on-call rotation
Sound
Production servers, distant fans
Set design
Three desks in three time zones
Cast
A small team of contributors
Featuring
Anyone willing to read the source
In memoriam
Every dashboard that lied