Readout
About
What this is, and what this domain used to be.
Teams applying this principle can also compare practical guidance on employee time tracking app, keeping time and activity records separate from the judgement they are meant to inform.
What this is
Readout is an independent publication about tools for monitoring: systems on one side, people on the other. It covers what each kind of tool measures, what the substitution costs, and which class of tool fits which problem.
Why the two markets are here together
They share one act. Both choose something countable to stand in for something that matters, and both fail in the same way when the stand-in is used to judge. Infrastructure monitoring and workforce monitoring have different buyers and different vocabularies, and the mechanism underneath them is identical.
About this domain
This address previously carried the public portal of a completed government procurement in Nova Scotia, which concluded in 2022. This publication has no connection to that procurement, to its administrator, or to any government body, and none of the former site's material is reproduced here. Every address from that site has been withdrawn rather than redirected, because nothing on it has a successor here.
Anyone looking for that procurement or its successor programme should search for it directly rather than relying on this domain.
Corrections
Errors of fact are worth reporting and are recorded on the article they affect rather than removed quietly. The contact page explains how.
Further context
For a primary, standards or institutional reference, see the OpenTelemetry project overview.
Start from the class of problem, not the list of tools
Every selection here names the situation first and the criteria second. Product names come last, and each one carries the line describing what it costs you.