The talk discusses the importance of operator observability in the context of Kubernetes operators. It emphasizes the need to start thinking about observability from the beginning of the operator development and explains the maturity levels of metrics. The speakers also share best practices and code examples for implementing observability in operators, including metrics naming conventions, help text for metrics, and base units for metrics. They also mention the importance of creating alerts and providing additional information like runbooks. The speakers highlight the need to separate monitoring code from logic code and discuss plans to automate metric and alert code generation. They encourage developers to follow the best practices and utilize the operator SDK for creating and monitoring operators effectively.