Andi Mann is Chief Product and Technology Officer at Apica, a leader in telemetry pipelines for observability platforms.
Early in my career, I ran operations for a major financial institution’s mainframe environment. Three consoles. Four screens each. My job was to manually correlate log data by timestamp, jumping between displays, trying to piece together what was happening before a minor glitch became a disaster.
We missed problems. Often. Not because we weren’t skilled, but because the sheer volume of data made it humanly impossible to catch everything.