# Mobile Observability Beyond Crash Tracking and Aggregate Metrics

DevFeed: [Mobile Observability Beyond Crash Tracking and Aggregate Metrics](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/a-call-to-arms-bringing-observability-2-0-to-mobile-part-1-38564.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://hanson.wtf/2024/12/09/a-call-to-arms-bringing-observability-2-0-to-mobile-part-1/>)

Author: Hanson

Published: 2024-12-10T07:38:37Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [hanson.wtf](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/hanson-wtf.md>)

Topics: [observability](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/observability.md>), [Mobile](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/mobile.md>), [Monitoring](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/monitoring.md>), [telemetry](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/telemetry.md>)

Tags: [android](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/android.md>), [app-performance](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/app-performance.md>), [crashes](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/crashes.md>), [latency](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/latency.md>), [metrics](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/metrics.md>), [mobile](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/mobile.md>), [monitoring](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/monitoring.md>), [observability](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/observability.md>), [performance](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/performance.md>), [sdks](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/sdks.md>), [tech](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/tech.md>), [work](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/work.md>)

## AI overview

The article argues that basic mobile monitoring, such as crash counts and aggregate performance metrics, does not provide true observability. It advocates actionable production data that helps developers investigate who is affected by issues and why.

## Source excerpt

The Observability-Free Zone For most companies, "mobile observability" is a misnomer. I say this because the data that most mobile devs have to "observe" their app in production is laughably simplistic. The vast majority make due with basic crash tracking and precomputed metric aggregates as the only lens into how their app is performing in [...]