Universal Observability Requires Universal Instrumentation

Observability means being able to ask and answer questions of your running systems by
observing their outputs, but in today's world only a small fraction of applications are
instrumented. Monitoring is ubiquitous, with basic infrastructure level visibility across every
server, container, network device and more. AppScope is a new open source project which aims
to make observability as ubiquitous as monitoring.
AppScope is a new form of black-box instrumentation that provides metrics and logs from any
linux binary, regardless of the runtime, delivered in open formats to existing tools simply by
prepending `scope` to the command. This talk will walk through AppScope, why it exists, how it
works, and show with heavy amounts of live demo how AppScope can give application level
visibility to every application.