Observability guidance for teams that want clearer signal and lower cost
Practical notes on OpenTelemetry, Tsuga, Datadog, telemetry pipelines, monitoring operations, and the economics of running observability well.
Author
Nicolas Narbais
I write from hands-on observability work across Tsuga, OpenTelemetry, Datadog, telemetry governance, and platform operations. I am also building Digitam to help teams reduce telemetry waste and improve monitoring outcomes.
Digitam Blog is an independent technical publication by Nicolas Narbais, launched in . It exists for teams that want observability to become more useful, less noisy, and easier to justify.
Most teams do not struggle because they lack data. They struggle because the data is expensive, fragmented, poorly governed, or hard to turn into action. This blog is about fixing that: collecting better signals, designing better monitoring systems, and getting more value from the tools already in place.
What you will find here
The blog focuses on practical, field-tested observability topics, including:
- OpenTelemetry implementation patterns and trade-offs
- Tsuga observability, governance, quality reports, and AI integration
- Datadog usage, governance, and cost optimization
- Logs, metrics, traces, dashboards, alerts, and ownership
- Monitoring practices for platform, SRE, and engineering teams
- Observability ROI and how to explain value beyond tooling spend
- Lessons from building and operating Digitam
Who this is for
Digitam Blog is written for platform engineers, SREs, engineering managers, technical account managers, and observability practitioners who want monitoring to be clearer, more useful, and less wasteful.
The goal is not to chase every new feature or collect more telemetry for its own sake. The goal is to help teams make better operational decisions with less noise, better context, and a more deliberate observability strategy.
About Digitam
The name Digitam blends digital with TAM: a hands-on, practical approach to helping teams get real value from technical platforms.
Digitam is built around a simple belief: observability should help teams understand and improve their systems, not bury them under more dashboards, alerts, invoices, and unused data.
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