Observability on FrankenPHP containers before the cloud migration was done
When you run workloads on-premise, you can get away with almost no observability. You have SSH. You have top. You have someone who knows that the authentication service always spikes on Monday mornings. Institutional knowledge substitutes for instrumentation, and nobody budgets the time to replace it. Then you migrate to the cloud. The institutional knowledge doesn’t follow. The SSH access is gone or inconvenient. And for the first time, you’re staring at fourteen FrankenPHP containers with no idea what they’re actually doing. ...