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Prometheus and OpenTelemetry finally play nice
5+ hour, 42+ min ago (241+ words) The often-misunderstood controversies regarding Prometheus and OpenTelemetry arise more from technical incompatibilities that have since been resolved. Without going into the history of those controversies, it can be said that Prometheus remains the gold standard for metrics from Kubernetes deployments....
Start Small and Go Big With Open Source Gonzo for Observability
1+ mon, 4+ day ago (401+ words) Logs are language, so if you throw the right information into an LLM, it can actually help explain what happened with the log " it looks across all your logs and bubbles that up and looks at a lot of pattern…...
How To Scale GitOps Without Hitting the 'Argo Ceiling"
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (326+ words) Too often, GitOps becomes a victim of its own success. One cluster and one Argo CD instance quickly sprawl into 50 clusters and 50 Argo instances, held together by glue code and custom scripts. The isolation that made Argo CD secure in…...
Can OpenTelemetry Save Observability in 2026?
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (1287+ words) Observability is not living up to expectations. As prices continue to rise, the pain is increasingly felt. This year has a foreboding sense of increased infrastructure complexity to manage at scale. In reaction to skyrocketing public cloud pricing, many organizations…...
From Group Science Project to Enterprise Service: Rethinking OpenTelemetry
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (519+ words) Ari Zilka says he counted 23 different observability vendors at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon" North America 2025, and talked with every single one. According to Zilka, first-ever Hortonworks CPO and now founder of MyDecisive.ai, they're all showing customers essentially the same thing. "Every…...
Self-Driving DevOps? How Stakpak Tackles Infrastructure Complexity
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (1229+ words) Everything in tech is always changing at what feels like a breakneck pace " everything except DevOps infrastructure, that is. Actually, George Fahmy, co-founder and CEO at Stakpak, says managing infrastructure is getting harder " that's in spite of the AI wave....
How Capital One Cut Tracing Data by 70% With OpenTelemetry
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (846+ words) Organizations absolutely need to squeeze as much value out of their telemetry as they possibly can, for a number of reasons. Gathering telemetric data or observability is also a very tricky proposition, to say the least. On one hand, turning…...
Shipping Syslog Data to Elasticsearch With Fluent Bit
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (362+ words) Fluent Bit is a widely used open source data collection agent, processor and forwarder that enables you to collect logs, metrics and traces from various sources, filter and transform them, and then forward them to multiple destinations. In modern infrastructure,…...
What To Know Before Building Fluent Bit Plugins With Go
2+ mon, 4+ week ago (184+ words) The emphasis on native binary performance benefits for cloud solutions, particularly at hyperscale, makes easy direct integration between C/C++ and Go important, as the Linux kernel is written with C/C++, and it is second after Go in terms…...
OpenTelemetry Experts Share the Future of Browser Support
3+ mon, 5+ day ago (791+ words) While OpenTelemetry has had support for collecting telemetry in the JavaScript language, the API and SDK was designed for Node.js, a server runtime. To better support the nuances of the browser runtime, the OpenTelemetry project created the Browser SIG…...