Observability

Container Apps are great for compute. But the observability story is rough. Here is what works, what does not, and what we did instead. The Logs Exist, But Finding Them Is Hard Container Apps send logs to Log Analytics. That sounds good. Until you try to use it. The logs are scattered across multiple tables: ContainerAppConsoleLogs for stdout/stderr ContainerAppSystemLogs for platform events AppEnvSpringCloudGatewayLogs if you use specific add-ons We spent time writing Kusto queries just to see what our application logged. ...

Alert fatigue is often blamed on tooling. Too many alerts. Bad thresholds. Noisy systems. Those things matter, but they are symptoms. Alert fatigue is an organizational problem. Alerts Reflect What the Org Cares About Every alert encodes a value judgment. This matters. This is urgent. Someone should wake up. When everything is urgent, nothing is. Organizations that cannot agree on priorities produce alert storms. The system is only reflecting that confusion. ...