# On the Real Subject of Observability on Mobile

DevFeed: [On the Real Subject of Observability on Mobile](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/on-the-real-subject-of-observability-on-mobile-38565.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://hanson.wtf/2025/05/10/on-the-real-subject-of-observability-on-mobile/>)

Author: Hanson

Published: 2025-05-11T06:35:40Z

Content type: article

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

Tags: [crash](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/crash.md>), [dashboards](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/dashboards.md>), [flexibility](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/flexibility.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>), [production](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/production.md>), [telemetry](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/telemetry.md>), [time-series](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/time-series.md>), [work](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/work.md>)

## AI overview

This commentary distinguishes observability from monitoring and argues that mobile observability should support flexible, ad hoc aggregation of production telemetry. It emphasizes connecting performance changes with user behavior and business KPIs, rather than reporting only application-level metrics such as heap size, startup percentiles, or crash rates.

## Source excerpt

Lets get something straight. Observability isn't the same as monitoring. Yes, both are powered by telemetry collected from production that are crunched down into metrics, shown as some sort of time-series, graph, or table of numbers. But the key difference is that o11y requires flexibility in aggregation, and on mobile in particular, o11y should give [...]