<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Observability on Ilyas Hamdi</title><link>https://ilyashamdi.com/tags/observability/</link><description>Recent content in Observability on Ilyas Hamdi</description><generator>Hugo -- gohugo.io</generator><language>en</language><lastBuildDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://ilyashamdi.com/tags/observability/index.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title>Monitoring at scale</title><link>https://ilyashamdi.com/writing/monitoring-infrastructure-architecture-at-scale/</link><pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://ilyashamdi.com/writing/monitoring-infrastructure-architecture-at-scale/</guid><description>The monitoring stack that worked at 50 services breaks at 500. Patterns that scale aren't bigger versions of the small ones. They're different patterns.</description></item><item><title>The cost of telemetry</title><link>https://ilyashamdi.com/writing/infrastructure-telemetry-architecture/</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://ilyashamdi.com/writing/infrastructure-telemetry-architecture/</guid><description>Cardinality, retention, and query are the levers that decide what your team can know about the system, and how much knowing costs.</description></item><item><title>SLO targets and observability maturity</title><link>https://ilyashamdi.com/writing/slo-targets-observability-maturity/</link><pubDate>Mon, 18 Mar 2024 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://ilyashamdi.com/writing/slo-targets-observability-maturity/</guid><description>SLO targets need to match observability maturity, not a generic standard. Sometimes leveling up observability is the precondition, not a parallel track.</description></item></channel></rss>