How to Build Your Infrastructure Monitoring in 2026

Every year I get asked the same question by teams starting from scratch: &ldquo;we have Grafana, we have some dashboards, why do we still get paged for things we didn&rsquo;t see coming?&rdquo; Most of the time, the answer isn&rsquo;t a missing tool. It&rsquo;s a missing method. Teams jump straight to &ldquo;let&rsquo;s install Prometheus&rdquo; or &ldquo;let&rsquo;s buy a SaaS observability…