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Oncall Burnout Is a Design Failure
Paging fatigue isn't a staffing problem. It's a design problem. Systems that generate noise do so because they weren't designed for operability.
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Paging fatigue isn't a staffing problem. It's a design problem. Systems that generate noise do so because they weren't designed for operability.
Traces, metrics, and logs were designed for deterministic systems. When an agent makes 40 tool calls across three services to complete a task, your existing observability stack tells you almost nothing useful.
Datadog at series A is fine. Datadog at seed is malpractice. Here's a stack that gets you 80% of the value for 1% of the cost.