I met a student a couple of months ago, and he had just started working on a research paper on observability. Everything he shared about his research topic baffled me. At the end of our conversation, I asked a question about cloud-native observability. Does cloud-native observability include only Kubernetes? He said, “It’s not just about Kubernetes; however, we are talking about cloud-native workloads and a whole lot of those involve Kubernetes.

I’m not surprised to see Prometheus and Grafana with top votes in CNCF’s recently published End User Technology Radar on Observability. However, I would have liked to see Litmus or any other chaos engineering tool on that radar because these are listed in the Observability and Analysis category of the CNCF landscape. Curiosity led me to watch a recording of one of the meetings hosted by the CNCF SIG for Observability