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?
Rows Not in the last 3 months Quarterly Monthly Weekly Daily Logs • • • • • Metrics • • • • • Tracing • • • • •
Rank today’s primary objectives for observability (top = most important).
Drag to order (top = most important)
Detect incidents faster Reduce MTTR Improve release quality Capacity and performance planning Cost optimization Understand user experience Dependency analysis and mapping
Overall ROI of our observability investments in the last 6 months?
Range: 1 – 10
Min: Very low Mid: Neutral Max: Very high
Perceived ROI by signal in the last 6 months:
Rows Very low Low Somewhat low Neutral Somewhat high High Very high Logs • • • • • • • Metrics • • • • • • • Tracing • • • • • • •
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.
Total must equal 100
Min per option: 0 Whole numbers only
How severe are the following cost and friction points today?
Rows Not a pain Minor Moderate High Severe Tooling license/subscription costs • • • • • Storage and retention limits • • • • • High data ingestion volumes • • • • • Alert noise and false positives • • • • • Training and onboarding effort • • • • • Context switching between tools • • • • •
In the last 3 months, how often did data gaps or missing context hinder investigations?
Range: 1 – 10
Min: Never Mid: Sometimes Max: Very often
How confident are you making operational decisions based on our observability data?
Scale: 10 (star)
Min: Not confident Max: Very confident
Prioritize where additional investment would most improve ROI (top = highest impact).
Drag to order (top = most important)
Expand tracing coverage Improve log structure and semantics Better metric naming and SLI definitions Unified correlation and navigation across signals Storage/retention optimization Alert rules and thresholds overhaul Team training and runbooks
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?
Accepts a numeric value
Whole numbers only
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?
Accepts a numeric value
Whole numbers only
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
AI Interview: 2 Follow-up Questions on observability ROI
Length: 2 Personality: Expert Interviewer Mode: Fast
Thank you! Your feedback will directly inform our next steps to improve observability ROI.