We're drowning in data but starving for insight. At peak load, we were collecting thousands of metrics per second, yet we still missed the signals that mattered. Worse, the observability overhead itself was creating garbage-collector pressure that degraded the systems we were trying to understand. The lesson we learned the hard way: observability isn't about collecting more data—it's about understanding the math behind the data and choosing the few signals that actually predict failure.
Nandini Bhatt is a Site Reliability Engineer II at Xurrent with a background in DevOps, SRE, and cloud infrastructure. She has previously worked at Xurrent, PhysicsWallah, and EY, building experience across platform operations, automation, and reliability engineering. A strong advocate for open source and community-driven learning, Nandini is passionate about improving system reliability, observability, and operational excellence while actively contributing to the DevOps and SRE community.
