// observability
Logs, metrics, traces, dashboards, and the mechanics of knowing where to look. Observability is not dashboards. It is understanding.
Observability is not dashboards. It is knowing where to look.
IDP-Observ proved the technique for one codebase. Turning it into keythread — a standalone package — meant a pluggable adapter interface, and a hard question: does it actually follow OpenTelemetry's own rules for extending itself?
The thesis's own limitations list said 'add HMAC signature verification.' Building it revealed that's not one task — Jira and GitLab don't authenticate webhooks the same way.
Jira and GitLab each measure their own slice of delivery. A deterministic approach to get one end-to-end DORA metric without modifying either tool.