Timothy Mahoney's session from Monitorama PDX 2023. It's important to have consistent data across an organisation but to insure data consistency, we have to insure the people responsible for producing that data have a common understanding. In implementing an observability framework for Ikea, we had to overcome not only technical hurdles but issues with taxonomy, semantics and language barriers to insure a common understanding among teams. I want to share my experiences as a senior engineer in an observability pipeline team and how we slowed down to speed up our company's observability journey.