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Track Errors First

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created: June 5, 2025, 11:42 a.m. | updated: June 5, 2025, 5:19 p.m.

Track Errors FirstKlaas van Schelven; June 4 - 5 min readObservability usually means collecting dashboards, traces, metrics, and logs — or at least, that’s how it’s sold. That makes an exception — a real, raised error — the single most useful event you can track. The Temple of Observability, with Errors fallen to the sideTechnically CoveredIn most observability platforms, errors are not missing — just abstracted. Plenty of APM tools claim to track errors — but often that just means counting them. Track errors first.

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