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How Platform Engineering Supports SRE
When people in the tech industry discuss platform engineering, they often focus on the benefits for developers. Speed up build and delivery! Lighten that cognitive load! Simplify and standardize...
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eBPF: Meaner Hooks, More WebAssembly and Observability Due
eBPF has indeed lived up to its hype in 2023, and in 2024, we will see more interesting developments. This is because eBPF has demonstrated its applicability as it sees continued adoption and thanks...
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NGINX Melds Open Source Tools into an Enterprise Platform
NGINX has offered a number of very popular open source and enterprise tools for proxy servers, covering Ingress controllers, WebAssembly and other computing technologies. However, this research- and...
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ClickHouse: Scaling Log Management with Managed Services
Consider a scenario where a company’s core function involves transferring, storing, processing, and visualizing customers’ data. In such a context, maintaining stringent security measures is not just...
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Pulumi Templates for GenAI Stacks: Pinecone, LangChain First
To build a Generative AI application, you typically need at least two components to start with, a Large Language Model (LLM) and a vector data store. You probably need some sort of frontend component...
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Netflix Releases bpftop: An eBPF-Based Application Monitor
Extended Berkeley Packet Filter, eBPF to its friends, enables you to run sandboxed programs in a privileged context in the Linux kernel. Netflix and many other companies, such as Google, use it for...
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Creating a Path for Prometheus Success
Prometheus is an easy-to-use, open source-monitoring and -alerting toolkit. Its popularity is no doubt due to its efficient time-series data collection database, flexible querying language (PromQL)...
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The New Monitoring for Services That Feed from LLMs
How do you monitor the services that feed from large language models (LLMs)? That was the question for a discussion with Adrian Cockcroft, who oversaw the development of the Netflix cloud on Amazon...
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Testing Event-Driven Architectures with Signadot
When doing end-to-end or acceptance testing, there are many ways to allow developers to experiment in well-isolated environments. Asynchronous architectures present a different set of challenges...
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Observability Is a Multicluster App Developer’s Best Friend
Multicluster application development is on the rise, and developers are dealing with a frustrating level of complexity related to these dynamic and distributed architectures. Choosing the best way to...
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ElasticSearch Goes Deep on OpenTelemetry with eBPF Donation
Monitoring and observability provider Elastic is committed to further integrating the Elasticsearch project with OpenTelemetry in a major way, recognizing it as a vital cornerstone for enhancing...
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OTel 101: Build Observability Skills with Hands-on Workshops
We are in the middle of a tectonic shift toward an open, extensible and observable world. With every pull request, the dream of “instrument once, observe anywhere” is closer than ever. Distributed...
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How Observability Is Different for Web3 Apps
Web3 represents the next evolutionary step in building web applications. Web3 combines blockchain technology, decentralized protocols and peer-to-peer interactions to give birth to a new standard for...
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KubeCon24: MinIO Object Store Equipped with Enterprise Features
KubeCon/CloudNativeCon For this year’s KubeCon+CloudNativeCon EU, being held in Paris this week, object storage provider MinIO has launched the MinIO Enterprise Object Store, a commercial product...
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A DIY Framework for Optimizing Observability Costs
Observability costs are exploding as businesses strive to deliver maximum customer satisfaction with high performance and 24/7 availability. Global annual spending on observability in 2024 is well...
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The Advent of Automated Observability
The cost of downtime is well documented, impacting everything from revenue to productivity to compliance to brand reputation. Over the past year, there have been several examples of major airlines...
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KubeCon24: VictoriaMetrics’ Simpler Alternative to Prometheus
KubeCon/CloudNativeCon KubeCon attendees: Unhappy with the price and/or complexity of your cloud native observability tools? Stop by booth H21 to learn more about VictoriaMetrics. VictoriaMetrics is...
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‘Observability’ Is Not Observability When It Comes to Business KPIs
When we think of “observability,” most of us define it as “metrics, logs and traces.” It’s not. What we really mean is to enrich and observe those pre-defined sets of data and then layer analysis on...
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10 Ways Kubernetes Observability Boosts Productivity, Cuts Costs
Cloud native has quickly become the preferred path to digital transformation, but it doesn’t come without added complexity and cost. Unlike virtual machine (VM)-based infrastructure, cloud native...
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Will the Real Test Observability Please Stand up?
The term “test observability” has started to appear in technical discussions and product marketing. However, its definition varies widely and is sometimes used in questionable ways. You could argue...
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Large Language Model Observability: The Breakdown
Getting the most out of a larger language model is the point of LLM observability. “In the last 12 months or so, there is a new stack that has evolved,” noted Janikiram MSV, an independent analyst and...
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Why Observability Can’t Measure What Really Matters
Want to get your heart rate up quickly? Imagine you’re deep into work when your manager calls saying people are ranting on social media that the checkout process in your app isn’t working properly....
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Highlight.io: Open Source Application Monitoring for Developers
Success in today’s digital markets depends on providing a simple and seamless user experience. But even the best-written and tested applications can have issues, and it can be difficult to determine...
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Grafana 11: No Need to Create PromQL Queries for Prometheus
AMSTERDAM — Improving the developer experience is at the heart of Grafana 11’s release. Among the standout features described during GrafanaCON 2024 here, Grafana Labs’ annual user’s conference, is...
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Why Observability Was Key to Citigroup’s Cloud Native Transition
You know that you want to move your applications to the cloud to achieve the always-on, scalable, responsive and agile capabilities your customers expect. But you also know that your developers may...
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Guider Daemon Automates Linux Performance Monitoring
SEATTLE–By the time he finished his presentation on the Guider Linux performance monitoring daemon, Peace Lee got three (3!) separate rounds of applause from the audience. The Linux greybeards in...
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