A truism amongst operations professionals is that any alert your observability platform produces should be actionable, otherwise it is just noise. Auto-remediation is a hard problem, so the most common action triggered by an alert is for an engineer to gather more data and context.

Observability has become one of the largest line items in the IT budget, second only to cloud costs. A main reason for this is teams are often stuck collecting significantly more data than they need. This is where Circonus Passport helps. Rather than filter data after it’s collected like current observability data pipeline management tools, Passport is used to filter data before it’s collected.