Are you looking at your organization’s efforts to enter or expand into the cloud-native landscape and feeling a bit daunted by the vast expanse of information surrounding cloud-native observability? When you’re moving so fast with Agile practices across your DevOps, SREs, and platform engineering teams, it’s no wonder this can seem a bit confusing. Unfortunately, the choices being made have a great impact on both your business, your budgets, and the ultimate success of your cloud-native initiatives that hasty decisions upfront lead to big headaches very quickly down the road.

In the previous introduction, we looked at the problem facing everyone with cloud-native observability. It was the first article in this series. In this article, you’ll find the first pitfall discussion that’s another common mistake organizations make. By sharing common pitfalls in this series, the hope is that we can learn from them.