The shift from "ops team owns production" to "platform team accelerates developers" is real — but it also changed what monitoring means.
In 2018 you monitored for ops. In 2026 you monitor for developers. The signals need to be different: not just "is it up" but "is it returning the right data." A 200 OK that returns garbage is still an incident.
That gap between uptime and correctness is something most teams still don't close well.
The shift from "ops team owns production" to "platform team accelerates developers" is real — but it also changed what monitoring means.
In 2018 you monitored for ops. In 2026 you monitor for developers. The signals need to be different: not just "is it up" but "is it returning the right data." A 200 OK that returns garbage is still an incident.
That gap between uptime and correctness is something most teams still don't close well.
Thanks, ChatGPT