Articles by Tag #observability
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Observability in Action: A Google Cloud Next demo
Quick run-down of one of the interactive demos that was presented at Next 2025, from the architecture to the products and features showcased.
DNS Failures in EKS? The Real Bottleneck Was AWS Network Limits
During the DNS investigation, I initially focused on CoreDNS and NodeLocal DNS metrics. The real...
Pomerium’s OpenTelemetry Tracing Support: Deeper Observability, Made Easy
Pomerium allows you to securely access Kubernetes APIs, internal apps, databases, and more—without a...
OpenTelemetry Tracing on the JVM
You may know I'm a big fan of OpenTelemetry. I recently finished developing a master class for the...
OpenTelemetry configuration gotchas
Last week, I described several approaches to OpenTelemetry on the JVM, their requirements, and their...
SRE in Action: Understanding How Real Teams Use SLOs, SLIs, and Error Budgets to Stay Reliable Through Case Studies - Part 1
When people talk about Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), they often share abstract principles about...
Securing Solace Metrics: How to Use OAuth with solace-prometheus-exporter
Deep dive into securing Solace PubSub+ metrics with OAuth 2.0 and Keycloak. Learn how to protect observability endpoints, configure scopes, roles, and audience claims, and build a secure production-ready setup.
Turn log lines into alerts (without building a whole observability stack)
Cold truth: problems always show up in logs first. The trick is turning those “uh-oh” lines into a...
Zero-Code Observability: Using eBPF to Auto-Instrument Services with OpenTelemetry
Instrumenting services for observability often means sprinkling tracing code across hundreds of files...
Predicting Failures in a Serverless App with AWS DevOps Guru and OpenTelemetry
Limitation of the Traditional Monitoring The management of modern distributed applications...
Composite SLOs for Serverless Event-Driven Systems
Measuring What Users Experience Across API Gateway -> Lambda -> DynamoDB -> EventBridge ...
Day 2 | 🎅 He knows if you have been bad or good... But what if he gets it wrong?
When Santa's AI misjudges Emma and puts her on the Naughty List, traditional observability can't help. Find out why AI agents need three layers of observability.
Prometheus Architecture
A detailed overview of the fundamental components of Prometheus architecture.
Day 7 | 🎄✨The Rockefeller tree in NYC: SLOs that actually drive decisions
Learn how to build SLOs that actually drive decisions by starting with business impact (the roots), connecting to solid telemetry (the trunk), and ending with actionable targets (the leaves) that influence roadmaps and guide engineering choices.
🔭 Observability Practices: The 3 Pillars with a Node.js + OpenTelemetry Example
🚀 Demystifying Observability: A Practical Guide with Node.js, OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, and...
OpenTelemetry for Go: Measuring the Overhead
OpenTelemetry for Go: Measuring the Overhead Everything comes at a cost — and...
Azure APIM MCP Audit Logging Without Breaking Everything
Audit logging, distributed tracing, and monitoring for Azure APIM MCP servers.
A Practical Introduction to AsyncLocalStorage in Node.js (With Real Use Cases)
AsyncLocalStorage (ALS) is a powerful but often misunderstood feature in Node.js. At its core, ALS...
Observability- My New Experience and Beyond
From AI/ML Background... In this article, I’m trying to jot down my journey, moving from...
Two KubeCons, One Conference: While Everyone Demos AI Agents, Engineers Are Fighting With Syslogs
KubeCon North America 2025 was actually two different events happening simultaneously in the same...
How to Give AI Agents Access to Runtime Traces
Debugging Locally with Execution-Aware AI (Using Runtime Traces) Who is it for? This post is for...
Why your support team can't use Grafana
I've been building B2B SaaS for 10 years, and there's one loop I've never escaped: Support gets a...
The Unofficial Guide to Contributing to OpenTelemetry — where to look and who to talk to!
OpenTelemetry provides the tools and standards to collect metrics, logs, and traces from applications...
The Case of the Zombie Transaction: Solving 'Unknown Unknowns' with OpenTelemetry & High Cardinality
Monitoring tells you the server is slow. Observability tells you WHY user #4094 failed to checkout. Let's debug a real-world payment distributed trace using Python and OpenTelemetry.
While We're Measuring Developer Productivity, Won't Someone Think of the Data Engineers?
Nicole Forsgren just dropped a new book, and I absolutely CONSUMED it. It's called Frictionless:...
Your Audit Logs Are Lying to You: 6 Properties That Make Logs Actually Verifiable
The Uncomfortable Truth About Your Audit Logs You've implemented logging. You have...
Observability isn’t about the tool. It’s about the truth
An enterprise client reports latency. Your dashboards say everything is fine. They blame you. You...
Your Observability Stack Is Optimized for the Wrong Thing
TL;DR: Modern observability tools—Prometheus, Jaeger, the ELK stack—excel at collecting signals...
All I Want for Christmas is Observable Multi-Modal Agentic Systems
How Session Replay + Online Evals Revealed How My Holiday Pet App Actually Works Original...
Centralized EKS monitoring across multiple AWS accounts
Complex systems require extensive monitoring and observability. Systems as complex as Kubernetes...