Welcome! Please answer based on your experience over the last 3–6 months. Your aggregated responses will guide how we improve our observability ROI.
Which observability signals or tools do you actively use at least monthly? Select all that apply.
- Logs
- Metrics
- Tracing
- Application Performance Monitoring (APM) dashboards
- Real User Monitoring (RUM)
- Synthetic monitoring
- Error tracking
In the last 3 months, how often did you use each signal to investigate or validate production behavior?
Rank today’s primary objectives for observability (top = most important).
Overall ROI of our observability investments in the last 6 months?
Perceived ROI by signal in the last 6 months:
Which outcomes contribute most to ROI for you? Select all that apply.
- Fewer incidents
- Faster triage and root cause
- Better alert quality
- Developer productivity
- Infrastructure cost savings
- Reduced operational toil
- Fewer support tickets
- Improved customer SLAs
Allocate 100 points to where you spent analysis time during incidents in the past quarter.
How severe are the following cost and friction points today?
In the last 3 months, how often did data gaps or missing context hinder investigations?
How confident are you making operational decisions based on our observability data?
Prioritize where additional investment would most improve ROI (top = highest impact).
Attention check: Please select “I am paying attention” only.
- I am paying attention
- I am not paying attention
- I prefer not to answer
What are the biggest barriers to realizing ROI from logs, metrics, and tracing? Select all that apply.
- Insufficient tracing coverage
- Unstructured or inconsistent logs
- Siloed tools and data
- Lack of SLOs/SLIs
- High data costs
- Limited team skills or time
- Unclear ownership or process
- Competing priorities
What percentage reduction in MTTR over the next 6 months would clearly demonstrate ROI?
Briefly describe one recent case (last 6 months) where logs, metrics, or tracing clearly helped or failed to deliver ROI.
Max 600 chars
What single change would most improve ROI from our observability stack?
Max 600 chars
What is your primary role?
- Site Reliability/DevOps
- Backend engineer
- Frontend/mobile engineer
- Platform/Infrastructure
- Data/ML engineer
- QA/Testing
- Product/Program
- Customer support
- Other
Which team or area do you primarily support?
- Product/application team
- Platform/Infrastructure
- Security
- Data/Analytics
- Customer support/Success
- Other
How many years have you worked in production operations or on-call contexts?
How often have you been on call in the last 6 months?
- Never
- Occasionally (less than monthly)
- Monthly
- Weekly or more
Which region are you primarily based in?
Any additional comments or context we should consider?
Max 600 chars
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