2023-10-16¶

Observability @ Scale¶

Manoj Sebastian Kulatharayil wrote Observability @ Scale, where he shares experiences and insights from building & buying observability platforms.

Kubernetes audit logs¶

Pratiksha Patel and Oshi Gupta shared Kubernetes Audit Logs in Parseable through Vector, an interesting hands-on piece.

Evolution of observability¶

Check out the OpenTelemetry end-user conversation The Evolution of Observability Practices with guests David Wynn, Austin Parker, Vijay Samuel, Nočnica Mellifera, and Iris Dyrmish. From this ca. 1h long video recording, available via YouTube, you can learn a lot!

Continuous profiling as-a-service¶

Polar Signals Cloud is Generally Available! Congrats and kudos to Frederic Branczyk and his team to launching their zero-instrumentation continuous profiling product into GA, what a milestone :)

AWS observability updates¶

My colleagues were busy: Sanjeev Ganjihal on How to reduce Istio sidecar metric cardinality with Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus and Greg Eppel, Denis V. Batalov, and Mihir Pate on Monitoring Generative AI applications using Amazon Bedrock and Amazon CloudWatch integration.

Cloud native Testing¶

Via TNS: Ken Hamric on 3 Ways Observability Matters in Cloud Native Testing, where he makes the case for trace-based testing.

That was it for this edition of the o11y newsletter. Feel free to share news items with me via Twitter—DMs are open if you like to share something in private. Stay safe and hope to see you around next week!