Why You Shouldn't Vibe Code Your Monitoring Tool

TL;DR Vibe coding makes a monitoring pipeline look finished in a single afternoon. The hard parts (scale, reliability, error grouping, compliance) show up months later, usually during the incident you’ve built the tool to catch. For most teams, a managed tool is the cheaper, faster, and safer choice, not because monitoring is hard to start with, but because it is hard to maintain. Vibe coding made building software feel almost too accessible. You describe what you want, an AI assistant scaffo...