Modern production systems generate more data than most developers can realistically process. Every request emits logs. Every service exports metrics. Every dependency introduces another layer of signals. In theory, this should make systems easier to understand. In practice, it does the opposite. Dashboards become dense, alerts become noisy, and when something breaks, the same questions still come up: What's actually wrong? Who's affected? Where do you even start? The problem isn't observability. It's interpretation. Most teams aren't short on metrics. They're short on meaning. And that gap exists because developers are often forced to reason about infrastructure when they should be focused on application behaviour. Metrics exist to describe systems, but without the right level of abstraction, they become another layer of complexity. This is where modern PaaS platforms change the equation. They don't remove metrics. Instead, they turn them into signals that developers can actually use.…