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2025-10-06

Buy vs build

In the r/sre sub-reddit, I stumbled upon an interesting conversation, check out Observability choices 2025: Buy vs Build to learn about options available and pain points, from practitioners.

Mobile telemetry panel

Note Wed October 8, 10am PT in your calendar: Pumpkin spice and OpenTelemetry for mobile is another online panel discussion with an impressive line-up, hosted by the good folks of Embrace.

Driflyte provides a RAG-powered search of GitHub repositories, so, give it a try and ask the AI ;)

Essential o11y guides

The one and only Andrew Mallaband put together Unlock the Future of Digital Operations: Your Essential Guide to Observability 2025, providing you with an easy way to discover his o11y series articles.

Sloth adds plugins

Are you into SLOs/SLIs? Sloth is the easy and simple Prometheus SLO generator. Sloth v0.13.0 now supports plugins that you can use, for example, to validate SLOs or create alerts.

That was it for this edition of the o11y newsletter. Feel free to share news items with me via Bluesky DM. Stay safe and hope to see you around next week!