The Observability Gap for Small Deployments (opens in new tab)

Over the years, I've worked on multiple small-to-medium applications running on modest infrastructure. A typical setup looks something like: A small EC2 instance A few Docker containers Limited operational budget No dedicated SRE team When something went wrong, my first instinct was usually: docker logs my-api This works surprisingly well. As applications grow, logs become harder to reason about: Which endpoints are failing most frequently? What is the current error rate? Which requests are s...