Understanding How CALMS Extends To Observability

As our observability and DevOps practices continue to join, similar alignment happens with our frameworks and goals. In fact, when one considers that observability is about increased and deeper data about our environments, it is evident that the frameworks aren’t changing so much as adapting to faster insights.

Let’s take a look at CALMS. CALMS (Culture, Automation, Lean, Measurement, Sharing) was created by Jez Humble and is meant as a method of assessing how an organization is adapting to DevOps practices. However, as we add observability, CALMS can extend to our observability practice as well.