It Wasn’t a Culture Problem: Upleveling Alert Development at Airbnb
How we changed our Observability as Code alert review process and cut development cycles from weeks to minutes.Observability as Code (OaC) — defining alerts, dashboards, and SLOs via code rather than UI — is table stakes for large engineering organizations. With OaC, observability adopts software development’s version control, code review, and testing processes, achieving the same level of discipline as a result. At Airbnb’s scale (thousands of engineers and services), this is the foundation that lets teams ship confidently while maintaining the reliability our guests and hosts depend on.Yet there’s a critical gap in most OaC workflows. While we bring rigor to alert definitions through code…
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