#observability

Observability without the enterprise price tag

You don't need a six-figure vendor contract to run a SaaS responsibly. You need structured logs, a handful of metrics, and enough tracing to follow one request end-to-end. Most of the rest is expensive noise. JSON over text. logger.info("user.signup", { userId, email }) over console.log("user signed up: " + email). Every log event becomes queryable, every…