Metrics & Mayhem

About Metrics & Mayhem

Metrics & Mayhem is a straight-talking podcast on leadership under pressure for leaders and teams in banking, finance, and software. Weekly Signal Drops deliver quick insight, with longer episodes when a topic needs room. Built from years of operations (keeping services running) and observability (understanding what systems are doing), the rule is simple: clarity beats noise. No jargon. No fluff. Just signals that matter, even when the dashboards look smug.

Publisher

Al Mann

Category

business · technology

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

27 Nov 2025

Latest episode

11 Aug 2026

Latest episodes

31 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   11 Aug 2026

   Wide Events: Observability 2.0, Without the Hype

   Everyone is talking about observability 2.0 and wide events. This is the plain-English version, and the honest part: they are powerful, and they are not new. I cover what a wide event actually is, why it answers the questions logs and metrics cannot, t...

2. 

   7 Aug 2026

   You Don't See the Foundation: Why AI Ops Fails Before It Starts

   The demo shows you the tower, the agent that fixes the incident on its own. It never shows you the year underground that made it possible: the clean telemetry, the tags, the traceability. This Signal Drop is about why AI ops is only ever as good as the...

3. 

   28 Jul 2026

   OpenTelemetry Profiles: The Fourth Signal, Explained

   Metrics, logs and traces tell you the box is hot. They cannot tell you which function is burning the CPU. OpenTelemetry Profiles, the fourth signal, finally can. In this Tech Tuesday, Allan Mann explains continuous profiling: what an OpenTelemetry prof...

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