--- title: Mitigating Software Outages: Shifting Left Observability description: Shifting left observability helps organizations reduce software outages by empowering developers with real-time access to observability data and a... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/mitigating-software-outages-shifting-left-observability-xhfrscubb twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Mitigating Software Outages: Shifting Left Observability | daily.dev og:description: Shifting left observability helps organizations reduce software outages by empowering developers with real-time access to observability data and a... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/mitigating-software-outages-shifting-left-observability-xhfrscubb og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/XhfRsCUbB.png og:image:alt: Mitigating Software Outages: Shifting Left Observability og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Mitigating Software Outages: Shifting Left Observability **[The New Stack](https://daily.dev/sources/newstack)** · 6 min read · 2 upvotes · 1 comments ## Summary Shifting left observability helps organizations reduce software outages by empowering developers with real-time access to observability data and a developer-centric approach. It improves incident response, reduces debugging time, and lowers overall observability costs. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@ahmetozel** · 0 upvotes > Lower observability costs is the claim I would want evidence for, since giving more people access to more data usually pushes spend the other way unless something changes about what gets collected. Where shift-left genuinely pays is upstream of access: when the person writing the code decides what the span and the log line should contain, you get fields that answer real questions instead of generic HTTP metadata. The cost reduction then comes from being able to sample aggressively, because the traces you keep are actually informative. That is a collection-design win, not an access-model one,... --- Tags: [#devops](https://daily.dev/tags/devops), [#observability](https://daily.dev/tags/observability), [#apm](https://daily.dev/tags/apm) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/mitigating-software-outages-shifting-left-observability-xhfrscubb) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Mitigating Software Outages: Shifting Left Observability","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/mitigating-software-outages-shifting-left-observability-xhfrscubb","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/mitigating-software-outages-shifting-left-observability-xhfrscubb"},"datePublished":"2024-05-14T19:01:03.309Z","dateModified":"2024-05-14T19:01:02.262Z","description":"Shifting left observability helps organizations reduce software outages by empowering developers with real-time access to observability data and a...","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/c1bc7d90d9eeec4f5f5f23fa76a165b4?_a=AQAEuiZ","thumbnailUrl":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/c1bc7d90d9eeec4f5f5f23fa76a165b4?_a=AQAEuiZ","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"The New Stack","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"The New Stack","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/t_logo,f_auto/v1/logos/newstack","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/newstack"},"commentCount":1,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/mitigating-software-outages-shifting-left-observability-xhfrscubb","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":2},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":1}],"keywords":"devops,observability,apm","timeRequired":"PT6M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"The New Stack","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/newstack"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Mitigating Software Outages: Shifting Left Observability"}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/mitigating-software-outages-shifting-left-observability-xhfrscubb","comment":[{"@type":"Comment","text":"Lower observability costs is the claim I would want evidence for, since giving more people access to more data usually pushes spend the other way unless something changes about what gets collected. Where shift-left genuinely pays is upstream of access: when the person writing the code decides what the span and the log line should contain, you get fields that answer real questions instead of generic HTTP metadata. The cost reduction then comes from being able to sample aggressively, because the traces you keep are actually informative. That is a collection-design win, not an access-model one, and the distinction matters when someone asks why the bill went up.","datePublished":"2026-09-20T20:38:24.336Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/XhfRsCUbB#c-cyOxSpYHI","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Ahmet Özel","url":"https://daily.dev/ahmetozel","image":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/70992231?v=4"}}]} ```