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2026-05-19
Our Industry Is Starting to Talk About Embedded Observability!
Something interesting is happening in the embedded software conversation.
For many years, runtime tracing and “observability” were mostly discussed as specialized debugging techniques. Valuable, yes, but usually brought in when a problem was already visible: a missed deadline, a watchdog reset, a customer complaint, a system that behaved differently in the field than in the lab. And in a quite separate conceptual domain from the parallel wave of cloud-native observability solutions. In recent months, we have seen a steady stream of independent articles, interviews, and technical commentary circling around the same underlying point: modern embedded systems are becoming too dynamic, too concurrent, and too software-defined to be understood from static views alone.
Of course, source code matters, architecture matters, and static analysis and unit tests still matters. But they do not show what the system actually does when tasks, interrupts, queues, drivers, middleware, hardware, timing variation, and real workloads start interacting. That is where many of today’s difficult engineering problems live. .This is also why we believe Continuous Observability is moving from a “tool category” into something closer to an engineering practice.
2026-03-27
Momentum around Embedded Observability
Embedded World this month was a strong reminder that embedded software teams are under growing pressure from several directions at once. What stood out to me in Nuremberg was that observability is no longer a niche topic. More teams are recognizing that better runtime insight is not just useful when something has already gone wrong, but as a continuous feedback loop throughout development and test.
2026-02-11
CTO And Founder Observations
Intermittent runtime issues are among the most expensive problems in embedded development. They often hide during testing but appear under specific conditions in real workloads, that may depend on various states, inputs and timing effects. Our focus at Percepio is to make those issues visible sooner and easier to understand.