eBPF holds the potential for true automatic instrumentation for observability. OpenTelemetry eBPF Instrumentation (OBI) is a new addition to the OpenTelemetry project, which brings the promise of a multi-language, multi-protocol auto-instrumentation, thanks to a code donation by Grafana Labs.
Our guest today is Mario Macías, Principal Software Engineer at Grafana Labs and OpenTelemetry eBFP Instrument maintainer. Macías joins Horovits to share about OBI, its origins, capabilities and how it fits into the broader OpenTelemetry project.
Mario holds a Ph.D. in Computer Architecture and for the last 8 years he's been working in observability at different companies. He also authored books in Spanish language, such as "Programación en Go" or "Introducción a Apache Spark".
You can read the recap post: https://medium.com/p/377cb0432bf1
Show Notes:
00:00 - episode intro
02:11 - guest intro
05:15 - Beyla origins
08:45 - OBI for app monitoring
14:46 - no-code multi-language instrumentation
23:12 - OBI trace support
33:58 - OBI components
43:39 - Beyla project new focus
47:21 - OTel instrumentation SIG
51:34 - collaboration with other OTel components and SIGs
54:59 - OBI roadmap
59:26 - outro
Resources:
Dotan Horovits
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Mario Macías
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OpenObservability Talks episodes are released monthly, on the last Thursday of each month and are available for listening on your favorite podcast app and on YouTube.
In this episode we explore how Dapr and KEDA—two CNCF graduated projects—are reshaping cloud-native application development and what that means for observability. From event-driven architectures to autoscaling and service runtime, we discuss how these building blocks fit into modern systems. We discuss major capabilities around resilience, scalability, observability and even agentic AI support.
Our guest for this episode is Yaron Schneider, co-creator of both Dapr and KEDA projects, and co-founder and CTO of Diagrid. He also brings years of leadership at Microsoft on scalable cloud architecture.
You can read the recap posts:
Show Notes:
00:00 - episode intro
01:19 - guest intro and Dapr & KEDA intro
04.53 - why Microsoft created KEDA
14:43 - why Microsoft decided to open-source KEDA
16:58 - why Microsoft created Dapr
24:52 - observability in Dapr
33:38 - shifting from logs to traces
37:46 - building a startup around foundation-led open source
46:22 - agentic AI support in Dapr
49:11 - Dapr updates and roadmap
52:15 - KEDA updates and roadmap
53:50 - Dapr at KubeCon NA
55:08 - Jaeger celebrates 10th anniversary
56:13 - OpenTelemetry Collector user survey
56:58 - proposal for a new OTel SIG for resource metadata semantic conventions
1:00:00 - outro
Resources:
Dapr: https://dapr.io/
KEDA: https://keda.sh/
Dapr accepted to graduation, Dec 2024, my LI post: https://www.linkedin.com/embed/feed/update/urn:li:share:7262354292794159105
Announcing Dapr AI Agents: https://www.cncf.io/blog/2025/03/12/announcing-dapr-ai-agents/
Jaeger 10th anniversary: https://medium.com/jaegertracing/jaeger-at-10-forged-in-community-reborn-in-opentelemetry-621d4eabdeda
Jaeger v2 and alignment with OpenTelemetry: https://medium.com/p/be612dbee774
Proposal for a new OpenTelemetry SIG: Service and Deployment Semantic Conventions: https://github.com/open-telemetry/community/pull/2837/
OTel Collector Follow-up Survey: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfbpqBcCVfmRj_Rk_Sd6zaBGpfzGSBvSZ6CdVn6PPBbbmPIOw/viewform
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Dotan Horovits
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Yaron Schneider
==============
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LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/yaron-schneider-2130b7a3/
The podcast episodes are available for listening on your favorite podcast app and on YouTube.
The ClickHouse open source project has gained interest in the observability community, thanks to its outstanding performance benchmarks. Now ClickHouse is doubling down on observability with the release of ClickStack, a new open source observability stack that bundles in ClickHouse, OpenTelemetry and HyperDX frontend.
I invited Mike Shi, the co-founder of HyperDX and co-creator of ClickStack, to tell us all about this new project. Mike is Head of Observability at ClickHouse, and brings prior observability experience with Elasticsearch and more.
You can read the recap post: https://medium.com/p/73f129a179a3/
Show Notes:
00:00 episode and guest intro
04:38 taking the open source path as an entrepreneur
10:51 the HyperDX observability user experience
16:08 challenges in implementing observability directly on ClickHouse
20:03 intro to ClickStack and incorporating OpenTelemetry
32:35 balancing simplicity and flexibility
36:15 SQL vs. Lucene query languages
39:06 performance, cardinality and the new JSON type
52:14 use cases in production by OpenAI, Anthropic, Tesla and more
55:38 episode outro
Resources:
ClickStack https://clickhouse.com/docs/use-cases/observability/clickstack
Shopify’s Journey to Planet-Scale Observability: https://medium.com/p/9c0b299a04dd
ClickHouse: Breaking the Speed Limit for Observability and Analytics https://medium.com/p/2004160b2f5e
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Dotan Horovits
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Mike Shi
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OpenObservability Talks episodes are released monthly, on the last Thursday of each month and are available for listening on your favorite podcast app and on YouTube.
We are overdue for a vendor neutral industry wide event dedicated to our favorite topic - open observability.
Last month (June 2025) the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) ran the first-ever Open Observability Summit, bringing together the world’s best experts in the field in a day packed with talks from project maintainers, end users and practitioners.
We’re proud partners of the event, and are here to bring you the highlights from this industry-shaping event.
This special episode has two parts, one recorded onsite before the event, covering conference goals, and insights from the talk submissions, and the other recorded after the event, covering the highlights of the events and the talks.
The guests for is episode are two observability veterans: Alok Bhide, member of the event’s content committee and head of product innovation at Chronosphere; and Henrik Rexed, developer advocate at Dynatrace, CNCF Ambassador, and host of Is It Observable podcast.
Catch up on everything you need to know from the first-ever Open Observability Summit.
You can read the recap post: https://medium.com/p/d42c8826d6a5/
Show Notes:
00:00 - intro
02:52 - Part 1 pre-event
03:40 - guest intro Alok Bhide
04:49 - a new community event for open observability
06:58 - talk submission highlights from the CFP content reviewer
12:34 - a view of the open observability stack and its use
16:42 - Fluent Bit alignment with OpenTelemetry
20:08 - AI in observability
25:34 - Part 2 talk highlights
26:22 - Fluent Bit vs. OpenTelemetry Collector benchmark analysis
37:51 - OpenSearch 3.1 release
40:47 - eBay’s observability talk
47:00 - Kotlin SDK for OTel talk for Android developers
51:45 - Otel Collector fine-tuning talk
53:52 - Broadcom OTel use case from mobile to mainframe
56:43 - Spotify migration from in-house TSDB to VictoriaMetrics and Prometheus
58:20 - OTel Collector replacement in Rust with the Rotel project
1:00:58 - Noisy neighbors network observability
1:03:04 - rising awareness of OTel semantic conventions
1:05:50 - outro
Resources:
Open Observability Summit + OTel Community Day: https://events.linuxfoundation.org/open-observability-summit-otel-community-day/
eBay innovation with open source observability: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ycNhzRVSbU&list=PLj6h78yzYM2NFT2PGItX2idBf7v8fHcy7&index=35
More on eBay’s journey to planet-scale observability: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UsU3nRglhA&list=PLd57eY2edRXz4djMETYTm-2p8WGTdoX3D
Spotify talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87koDlpKDR4&list=PLj6h78yzYM2NFT2PGItX2idBf7v8fHcy7
Kotlin SDK for OTel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=di5nhYvUh6w&list=PLj6h78yzYM2NFT2PGItX2idBf7v8fHcy7
More on mobile observability with OTel: https://medium.com/p/2eb847c41941
OpenTelemtry Collector vs. Fluent Bit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZho5W9L_Z8&list=PLj6h78yzYM2NFT2PGItX2idBf7v8fHcy7&index=8
Telemetry Pipelines: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0d1g5ZWAc1Y&list=PLj6h78yzYM2NFT2PGItX2idBf7v8fHcy7&index=30
OTel Collector in Rust with Rotel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xeQnP8Ct7qY&list=PLj6h78yzYM2NFT2PGItX2idBf7v8fHcy7&index=16
Rotel project repo: https://github.com/streamfold/rotel
Noisy neighbor detection: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVqiOtXTEFA
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Dotan Horovits
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Henrik Rexed
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Alok Bhide
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OpenSearch has become a cornerstone of open source search and observability, empowering developers and organizations to derive meaningful insights from unstructured data at scale.
The past year marks a significant milestone in its journey, with OpenSearch officially joining The Linux Foundation, further cementing its position in the open source ecosystem.
Now, after two years of 2.x, the next major release is here, and it brings significant advancements in performance, data management, vector database functionality, and much more. In this episode we dive into the 3.0 release, across lexical, semantic, and hybrid search, vector database improvements, observability capabilities, performance boosts, and much more. We also look at the community and ecosystem, the recent move of the project under The Linux Foundation, and some of the interesting use cases out there.
Our guests for this episode are Carl Meadows, Chair of the Governing Board of the OpenSearch Software Foundation, and Pallavi Priyadarshini, member of the Technical Steering Committee and the OpenSearch 3.0 release manager.
The episode was live-streamed on 9 June 2025 and the video is available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4T-ksTAmxg
You can read the recap post: https://medium.com/p/fb526e0d44e5/
Show Notes:
00:00 - intro
03:30 - OpenSearch joins the Linux Foundation
06:05 - the community and Technical Steering Committee
11:39 - why now 3.0?
13:53 - performance improvements
17:55 - vector database and MCP for agentic AI support
23:20 - what's new with observability
30:14 - Discover UI view and anomaly detection
33:55 - the vision for OpenSearch and differentiation
37:33 - Data Prepper ingestion component
44:28 - gRPC and Protobuf support
49:47 - 3.1 release and the 3.x line
55:25 - where to follow and join the community
1:03:12 - outro
Resources:
OpenSearch 3.0 announcement blog: https://opensearch.org/blog/unveiling-opensearch-3-0/
OpenSearch public roadmap: https://github.com/orgs/opensearch-project/projects/220
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Dotan Horovits
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Carl Meadows
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Pallavi Priyadarshini
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OpenObservability Talks episodes are released monthly, on the last Thursday of each month and are available for listening on your favorite podcast app and on YouTube.
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The ClickHouse® project is a rising star in observability and analytics, challenging performance conventions with its breakneck speed. This open source OLAP column store, originally developed at Yandex to power their web analytics platform at massive scale, has quickly evolved into one of the hottest open source observability data stores around. Its published performance benchmarks have been the topic of conversation, outperforming many legacy databases and setting a new bar for fast queries over large volumes of data.
Our guest for this episode is Robert Hodges, CEO of Altinity — the second largest contributor to the ClickHouse project. With over 30 years of experience in databases, Robert brings deep insights into how ClickHouse is challenging legacy databases at scale. We’ll also explore Altinity’s just-launched groundbreaking open source project—Project Antalya—which extends ClickHouse with Apache Iceberg shared storage, unlocking dramatic improvements in both performance and cost efficiency. Think 90% reductions in storage costs and 10 to 100x faster queries, all without requiring any changes to your existing applications.
The episode was live-streamed on 20 May 2025 and the video is available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VeyTL2JlWp0
You can read the recap post: https://medium.com/p/2004160b2f5e/
OpenObservability Talks episodes are released monthly, on the last Thursday of each month and are available for listening on your favorite podcast app and on YouTube.
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Show Notes:
00:00 - Intro
01:38 - ClickHouse elevator pitch
02:46 - guest intro
04:48 - ClickHouse under the hood
08:15 - SQL and the database evolution path
11:20 - the return of SQL
16:13 - design for speed
17:14 - use cases for ClickHouse
19:18 - ClickHouse ecosystem
22:22 - ClickHouse on Kubernetes
31:45 - know how ClickHouse works inside to get the most out of it
38:59 - ClickHouse for Observability
46:58 - Project Antalya
55:03 - Kubernetes 1.33 release
55:32 - OpenSearch 3.0 release
56:01 - New Permissive License for ML Models Announced by the Linux Foundation
57:08 - Outro
Resources:
ClickHouse on GitHub: https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse
Shopify’s Journey to Planet-Scale Observability: https://medium.com/p/9c0b299a04dd
Project Antalya: https://altinity.com/blog/getting-started-with-altinitys-project-antalya
https://cmtops.dev/posts/building-observability-with-clickhouse/
Kubernetes 1.33 release highlights: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7321054742174924800/
New Permissive License for Machine Learning Models Announced by the Linux Foundation: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:share:7331046183244611584
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Dotan Horovits
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Robert Hodges
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KubeCon Europe 2025 in London has wrapped up, and we’re bringing you all the highlights, trends, and behind-the-scenes insights straight from the show floor!
In this special recap episode, I’m joined by two CNCF Ambassadors and community powerhouses: Kasper Borg Nissen, the Co-Chair of this KubeCon as well as of the KubeCon 2024 editions, and a Developer Relations Engineer at Dash0; and William Rizzo, Consulting Architect at Mirantis and Linkerd Ambassador.
Together, we unpack the major themes from the event—from platform engineering and internal developer platforms, to open source observability, and where Kubernetes is headed next. We also chat about the vibe of the community, emerging projects to watch, and important trends in European tech sphere.
Whether you missed the conference or want to catch up on important updates you might have missed, this episode gives you a curated take straight from the experts who know the cloud-native space inside out.
The episode was live-streamed on 22 April 2025 and the video is available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JyxJOmOEBvQ
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Show Notes:
00:00 - intro
03:28 - KubeCon impressions
09:59 - Backstage turns 5
18:56 - CNCF turns 10 and CNCF annual survey
27:22 - Sovereign cloud in Europe and the NeoNephos initiative
33:55 - CI/CD use in production increases
36:52 - OpenInfra joins the Linux Foundation
40:16 - Cloud native local communities, DEI and the BIPOC initiative
51:11 - Observability query standardization SIG updates
59:36 - outro
Resources:
00:00 - intro
03:28 - KubeCon impressions
09:59 - Backstage turns 5
18:56 - CNCF turns 10 and CNCF annual survey
27:22 - Sovereign cloud in Europe and the NeoNephos initiative
33:55 - CI/CD use in production increases
36:52 - OpenInfra joins the Linux Foundation
40:16 - Cloud native local communities, DEI and the BIPOC initiative
51:11 - Observability query standardization SIG updates
59:36 - outro
Socials:
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Dotan Horovits
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Kasper Borg Nissen
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William Rizzo
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Observability into mobile native applications presents unique challenges, from capturing real user interactions to dealing with network constraints and battery efficiency. In this episode of OpenObservability Talks, we explore the special characteristics of client-side telemetry, and how OpenTelemetry helps generate mobile client telemetry for real user monitoring (RUM), enabling deeper insights into performance and user experience.
We host Hanson Ho, Android architect at Embrace and an approver on the OpenTelemetry Android SDK. Hanson brings a wealth of experience from Twitter, Salesforce and SAP. He will share his expertise on instrumenting mobile apps, the evolution of OpenTelemetry for Android, and best practices for collecting and analyzing mobile telemetry. Tune in to learn how to bring OpenTelemetry-powered observability to your mobile applications!
The episode was live-streamed on 17 March 2025 and the video is available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIid85wO8gc
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Show Notes:
00:00 - Intro
01:42 - the unique characteristics of mobile env
03:39 - Android presents additional challenges
05:41 - observability in everyday frontend dev
12:01 - observability for business metrics in mobile apps
18:28 - collecting telemetry in constrained mobile devices
23:03 - Twitter scale observability into mobile apps
29:01 - how mobile monitoring used to work before OpenTelemetry
33:37 - OpenTelemetry expansion from server-side into client-side telemetry
44:09 - OpenTelemetry Android SDK working group
50:53 - Embrace’s journey into OpenTelemetry
1:00:04 - Outro
Resources:
OpenTelemetry Android SDK: https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-android
OpenTelemetry Client SDK and Instrumentation SIG board: https://github.com/orgs/open-telemetry/projects/19/views/1
Adding client-side support to OpenTelemetry: https://medium.com/p/a389144f3812#2fcf
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Dotan Horovits
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Hanson Ho
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Shopify operates at massive scale, running thousands of services and processing billions of events per second. To tackle the challenges of observability at this scale, they built Observe—an in-house observability stack that makes use of open-source tools and specifications. In fact, they replaced an older vendors-based system, in an awe-inspiring migration project. But why build their own stack? Which open source tools did they use? How did they shape the user experience to their needs?
Joining us to unpack Shopify’s journey is Elijah McPherson, an engineering leader with deep expertise in observability and distributed systems. Elijah led the complete rebuild of Shopify’s observability stack and now also oversees jobs, caching, search, and ClickHouse infrastructure. Tune in to hear firsthand insights from one of the most innovative purpose-built observability implementations in production today!
The episode was live-streamed on 11 February 2025 and the video is available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBfTjlXKJW0
OpenObservability Talks episodes are released monthly, on the last Thursday of each month and are available for listening on your favorite podcast app and on YouTube.
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Show Notes:
00:46 - Episode and guest intro
03:43 - Why rebuild the observability stack in house
05:47 - Cost and vendor lock-in
07:09 - Tailoring observability for the organizational processes
10:27 - How to build a team to build in-house observability
13:37 - The importance of product sense in internal platforms
18:05 - The functionality of Shopify’s observability platform
25:15 - The Open Source stack used at Shopify observability
29:50 - Extending open source Grafana to Shopify’s needs
36:23 - Adopting open standards
42:26 - observability into business health
45:16 - how to run a migration project for a live production platform
53:15 - final tips and best practices
56:41 - which organizations should develop in-house observability
Resources:
Episode: Scaling Platform Engineering: Shopify’s Blueprint: https://medium.com/p/f18e97140681
Shopify Observe - lectures: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/elijahmcpherson_observe-activity-7258195493657223168-mOGS/
Socials:
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Dotan Horovits
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Elijah McPherson
===============
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We all know pretty well what open source means and what AI means. But what does open source AI mean? Is there even such a thing? Join us for an intriguing episode as we host Stefano Maffulli, Executive Director of the Open Source Initiative (OSI). The OSI has been the steward of the Open Source Definition for over two decades, and has recently launched its first draft of the Open Source AI Definition—OSAID 1.0—following intense community discussions, and amid corporate and governmental policy making and opinion shaping efforts. In this engaging fireside chat, host Dotan Horovits and Stefano delve into the evolving role of open source in the age of AI. Stefano shares insights into how open source principles are being applied to artificial intelligence, the challenges of defining openness in this rapidly advancing field, and the impact of OSI’s work in shaping the future of AI innovation. Whether you're a developer, data scientist, FOSS advocate, or simply curious about the intersection of open source and AI, this is an episode you won’t want to miss! Stefano Maffulli is a leader in the global Open Source community and has experience leading global projects across organisations, partners, and countries. Stefano is a skilled writer and speaker on community building and an active Open Source contributor.
The episode was live-streamed on 21 January 2025, and the video is available at https://youtube.com/live/DIcv2YbFC6c
You can read the recap blog here: https://medium.com/p/5ba89e11c26d
OpenObservability Talks episodes are released monthly, on the last Thursday of each month and are available for listening on your favorite podcast app and on YouTube.
We live-stream the episodes on Twitch and YouTube Live - tune in to see us live, and chime in with your comments and questions on the live chat.
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Show Notes:
00:44 - Episode and guest intro
02:35 - What’s the OSI’s role today
07:33 - Trend of open source projects turning to the dark side
17:38 - AI challenges the open source definition
20:39 - How is open source different in AI than in software?
25:41 - The broken social contract of data
34:17 - White paper by the OSI and Open Future
40:23 - Open Source AI Definition v1.0, industry feedback and roadmap
49:55 - The EU AI Act and legislative work for open source AI
55:31 - What’s next from the OSI
Resources:
Open Source Initiative (OSI): https://opensource.org/
Open Future and OSI - white paper on open source AI: https://opensource.org/data-governance-open-source-ai
Mozilla and Eleuther - white paper on open source AI: https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/research/library/towards-best-practices-for-open-datasets-for-llm-training/
Dark Side of Open Source: The Community Strikes Back: https://medium.com/p/400a1a5c679e
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Dotan Horovits
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Stefano Maffulli
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In this special year-end episode of OpenObservability Talks, we are thrilled to host Charity Majors, co-founder and CTO of Honeycomb, for an insightful conversation on the state of observability. Charity and our host Horovits recently delivered keynotes at Open Source Observability Day, which sparked fascinating discussions on the evolution of open observability and its impact on the broader industry.
Together, they run a 2024 yearly postmortem on the key insights and trends, exploring what the observability community and industry have accomplished this year. Looking ahead, they also discuss what’s on the horizon for observability in 2025 and beyond.
Charity Majors pioneered the concept of modern Observability, drawing on her years of experience building and managing massive distributed systems at Parse (acquired by Facebook), Facebook, and Linden Lab building Second Life. She is the co-author of Observability Engineering and Database Reliability Engineering (O'Reilly).
Join us for this fireside chat as we wrap up the year with the influential voices in observability.
The episode was live-streamed on 9 December 2024 and the video is available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7ssNKAmYMs
You can read the recap post at https://medium.com/p/94f80fff77e8/
OpenObservability Talks episodes are released monthly, on the last Thursday of each month and are available for listening on your favorite podcast app and on YouTube.
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Show Notes:
00:00 - intro
01:51 - major observability trends of 2024
05:14 - OpenTelemetry trends
07:50 - Observability 2.0
14:45 - AI for DevOps and Observability
27:02 - Platform engineering
36:37 - observability query and data analytics
43:40 - observability for business insights
46:53 - how to start observability in Greenfield projects
50:15 - additional use cases for observability
54:11 - controlling cost of observability
58:47 - outro
Resources:
Practitioner's guide to wide events: https://jeremymorrell.dev/blog/a-practitioners-guide-to-wide-events/
Charity Major's blog on Observability 2.0: https://www.honeycomb.io/blog/time-to-version-observability-signs-point-to-yes
Observability Is A Data Analytics Problem: https://insideainews.com/2022/04/07/observability-is-a-data-analytics-problem/
Platform as a Product survey by the CNCF: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:share:7267977952242397185/
SaaS observability: https://medium.com/p/b2db276305b2
Expensive Metrics: Why Your Monitoring Data and Bill Get Out Of Hand: https://medium.com/p/e5724619e3f1
Sampling best practices: https://logz.io/learn/sampling-in-distributed-tracing-guide/
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Dotan Horovits
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Charity Majors
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Catch up on everything you missed at KubeCon North America 2024! Join us for a special recap that brings you closer to the action. This is a special episode in collaboration with the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), the foundation behind KubeCon+CloudNativeCon and the cloud-native projects.
Dotan Horovits, our host and a CNCF Ambassador, will be joined by an all-star panel of cloud-native experts—CNCF Ambassadors Viktor Farcic and Max Körbächer—each bringing their unique insights and takeaways from the conference.
Together, they unpack the major project announcements and key themes from this year’s event: the standout talks, co-located events, maintainer meetings and those memorable hallway conversations. Get insights from the experts who know the cloud-native space inside out.
Viktor Farcic is a lead rapscallion at Upbound and a published author. He is a host of the YouTube channel DevOps Toolkit and a co-host of DevOps Paradox.
Max is Co-Founder at Liquid Reply. He is Co-Chair of the CNCF Environmental Sustainability Technical Advisory Group and served 3 years at the Kubernetes release team. He runs the Munich Kubernetes Meetup as well as the Munich and Ukraine Kubernetes Community Days.
Dotan Horovits is a DevOps specialist with special focus on observability solutions and related open source projects such as OpenTelemetry, Jaeger, Prometheus and OpenSearch. He runs the OpenObservability Talks podcast, now in its 5th year.
Don't miss this expert-led KubeCon recap, in collaboration with the Cloud Native Computing Foundation’s official channel!
The episode was live-streamed on 19 November 2024 in collaboration with the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, and the video is available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TrPev5IzB8
You can read the recap post: https://medium.com/@horovits/1362959030c1
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Show Notes:
00:00 - episode and speaker intro 02:45 - KubeCon Salt Lake City stats and trends 05:26 - The cloud-native stack is maturing up 08:12 - KubeCon’s role in the cloud-native space 11:23 - Platform Engineering trend 14:07 - Open specifications and Kubernetes API 18:44 - Flatcar joins the CNCF with container focused OS 24:54 - wasmCloud moves to CNCF incubation and WASMCon highlights 31:49 - CNCF Ambassador program and recent Community Awards 35:24 - KubeCon event plan and expansion, and local KCDs 43:34 - Environmental Sustainability TAG 47:46 - Dapr and cert-manager reached CNCF graduation 51:11 - Cloud Native Reference Architectures 54:39 - observability updates for Jaeger, Prometheus and more 58:53 - episode outro
Resources:
CNCF community awards: https://www.cncf.io/announcements/2024/11/14/cloud-native-computing-foundation-announces-the-2024-community-awards-winners/ Dapr graduation: https://www.cncf.io/announcements/2024/11/12/cloud-native-computing-foundation-announces-dapr-graduation/ wasmCloud moves to incubation: https://www.cncf.io/blog/2024/11/12/cncf-welcomes-wasmcloud-to-the-cncf-incubator/ More on wasmCloud: https://medium.com/p/02a5025c6115 OpenTelemetry expands into CI/CD observability https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:share:7259200802689273856 Jaeger v2 unveiled https://medium.com/p/be612dbee774 Prometheus 3.0 unveiled https://medium.com/p/1c5edca32c87 Flatcar joins the CNCF https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:share:7257278073824288768/ OpenCost matured into incubation https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:share:7257826394179522562 New Cloud Native Reference Architecture hub: https://architecture.cncf.io/ CNCF upcoming events: https://www.cncf.io/events/ Kubernetes Community Days events around the world https://www.cncf.io/kcds/
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Dotan Horovits
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Viktor Farcic
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Max Körbächer
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In this episode of OpenObservability Talks, Dotan Horovits sits down with Yuri Shkuro, the creator of Jaeger, to unveil the highly anticipated Jaeger V2. This major release introduces a new architecture with deep OpenTelemetry integration, which promises more flexibility, performance, extensibility and ease of use. Join us as Yuri shares insider details on the challenges, innovations, and roadmap for Jaeger V2 towards a more efficient and scalable distributed tracing solution.
Yuri is a software engineer who works on distributed tracing, observability, reliability, and performance problems, currently working at Meta; author of the book "Mastering Distributed Tracing"; creator of Jaeger, an open source distributed tracing platform originally developed at Uber; co-founder of the OpenTracing and OpenTelemetry CNCF projects; member of the W3C Distributed Tracing Working Group.
The episode was live-streamed on 14 October 2024, and the video is available at www.youtube.com/watch?v=lICivVwm-F8.
Check out the recap blog at: https://medium.com/p/be612dbee774/
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Dotan Horovits
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Yuri Shkuro
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LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/yurishkuro/
PromCon, the flagship yearly event of the Prometheus community, is back in Berlin, and we’re here to bring you the highlights from the Prometheus ecosystem. And this year we’ve got some major news: Prometheus’s long-awaited major release, v3.0!
Join us to hear all about the revamped user interface, about Remote Write 2.0, and about Prometheus’ goal to become the default backend for storing OpenTelemetry metrics, featuring native OTel support, and much more. We’ll cover these and more highlights from the Prometheus ecosystem.
Our guest is no other than Julius Volz, creator of Prometheus, and founder of the PromCon conference. Julius created the Prometheus monitoring at SoundCloud and led the project through open source and beyond. He now focuses on growing the Prometheus community, and helps companies use and adapt Prometheus through his company PromLabs. Before that, Julius was a Site Reliability Engineer at Google, where he gained experience monitoring at hyperscale.
The episode was live-streamed on 4 September 2024 and the video is available at www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPUCU-78RD4
Check out the episode recap: https://medium.com/p/1c5edca32c87/
OpenObservability Talks episodes are released monthly, on the last Thursday of each month and are available for listening on your favorite podcast app and on YouTube.
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Show Notes:
00:00 - episode and guest intro
01:56 - Prometheus origins
07:23 - Kubernetes synergy
09:34 - Origins of PromCon and this year’s event
11:44 - The idea for Prometheus 3.0
13:26 - new UI for Prometheus
20:42 - Beyond Prometheus UI into the broader UI/UX vision
23:07 - OpenTelemetry support and compatibility
37:26 - Native histograms
43:14 - Remote Write 2.0
46:53 - New governance model
48:49 - OpenMetrics is archived, merged into Prometheus
53:34 - Perses joins the CNCF sandbox
57:15 - The landscape of long-term storage for Prometheus
59:13 - Updates in Thanos project
01:00:34 - the growth of Prometheus-semi-compatible solutions
01:04:09 - Kubernets 1.31 is released
Resources:
PromCon recap: https://medium.com/p/1c5edca32c87/
PromCon: https://promcon.io/2024-berlin/
Prometheus now supports OpenTelemetry: https://horovits.medium.com/83f85878e46a
OpenMetrics archived, merged into Prometheus: https://horovits.medium.com/d555598d2d04
Prometheus 3.0-Beta release: https://github.com/prometheus/prometheus/releases/tag/v3.0.0-beta.0
Prometheus 3.0-Beta release blog: https://prometheus.io/blog/2024/09/11/prometheus-3-beta/
Perses project introduction: https://horovits.medium.com/f05b5324d7da
Last roundup of Prometheus updates: https://horovits.medium.com/fbede9b5cc9
Last PromCon (2023) recap:
https://logz.io/blog/promcon-prometheus-ecosystem-updates/
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Dotan Horovits
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Julius Volz
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OpenShift is an open-source container application platform that brings Docker and Kubernetes together to help organizations build, deploy, and manage containerized applications. Open source OpenShift (OKD) powers some of the largest Kubernetes clusters, such as in CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research. Join us for a fireside chat with an OpenShift veteran Radek Vokál, on the current state of the OpenShift project, its vibrant community, and the pivotal role Red Hat plays in its development and growth.
In this episode we delved into how observability is integrated within OpenShift, discussing key strategies, tools and open source projects for effective monitoring, troubleshooting and cost management. Whether you're managing complex deployments or seeking to enhance system performance, this episode offers valuable insights and practical guidance on leveraging OpenShift for improved observability. Don't miss this in-depth discussion!
Our guest is Radek Vokál, Senior Manager, Red Hat Observability Product Management. With 20 years at Red Hat, Radek has been involved in OpenShift from engineering and product side. Radek currently leads product management for the OpenShift Observability. Radek has also been a co-organizer of the DevConf.cz open source community conference in the Czech Republic for the last 17 years.
The episode was live-streamed on 8 August 2024 and the video is available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPNHJ7Nn8uA
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Show Notes:
00:00 Episode and guest intro
06:29 What's OpenShift
10:22 OKD (OpenShift Core) open source
14:49 Product management for open source
19:27 Cost and resource efficiency of Kubernetes clusters
30:06 Observability at OpenShift
39:54 Open source observability stack used at OpenShift
42:12 Moving away from Grafana and adopting Perses OSS
45:04 OpenShift roadmap
48:40 Adopting OpenTelemetry
56:52 CrowdStrike and Azure outages
58:15 AWS taking down a suite of services
1:00:28 Jaeger V2 is coming
1:02:45 Episode outro
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Dotan Horovits
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Radek Vokál
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LInkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/radekvokal/
Time to explore the next frontier in cloud-native evolution: WebAssembly (WASM). Moving beyond containers and Kubernetes, WASM bears the promise to revolutionize the cloud landscape with unparalleled performance, portability, and security. Can it actually deliver on this promise? We discussed this and more it in this episode.
We delved into how WASM is transforming the way we build and run cloud-native applications, enabling a more efficient, scalable, and flexible infrastructure. We also got latest insights from the Cloud Native Computing Foundation’s work in the domain, the wasmCloud open source project and the tool landscape, along with the work of the WASM working group and standardization efforts with the Bytecode Alliance.
This episode’s guest is Taylor Thomas, Engineering Director working on WebAssembly platforms at Cosmonic. He serves as a co-chair for the CNCF’s WASM working group, and as a CNCF Ambassador. He actively participates in the open source community and is one of the creators of Krustlet and Bindle. His work at Intel, Nike, and Microsoft spanned various containers and Kubernetes platforms as well as WebAssembly platforms.
The episode was live-streamed on 18 July 2024 and the video is available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2xIoVNwtKM
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Dotan Horovits
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Taylor Thomas
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Redis is no longer open source. Just a few months ago, in March 2024, the project was relicensed, leaving its vast community confused. But the community did not give up, and started work to fork Redis to keep it open.
In this episode, we delve into the Valkey project, a prominent fork of Redis, established under the Linux Foundation, which brought together important figures from the Redis community, as well as leading industry giants including AWS, Google Cloud, Oracle and others. Valkey has rapidly gained momentum and just reached General Availability (GA).
Join us as we explore the motivations behind Valkey's creation, hear first-hand stories on its foundation and journey to GA, and learn of its Redis compatibility, roadmap and implications for the open-source community.
Valkey's first Contributor Summit is taking place June 5-6 in Seattle and we will bring you announcements and updates hot off the summit. Our guest is Kyle Davis, the Senior Developer Advocate on the Valkey project, and a past contributor for Redis.
Kyle currently works at AWS, a founding member of Valkey, and has a long history with open source and with forks. He was a founding contributor to the OpenSearch project, which started as a fork of Elasticsearch and Kibana after the latter's relicensing off OSS. Most recently Kyle worked to build a community around Bottlerocket OSS project.
The episode was live-streamed on 10 June 2024 and the video is available at youtube.com/live/HQ7TAdQpxu4
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Show Notes:
01:12 - Episode intro, Kyle Davis’ Redis background
05:43 - Redis relicensing off open source
10:10 - Valkey vs. other Redis open source forks
16:50 - drop-in replacement of Redis
19:35 - Redis user experience during the relicensing
28:50 - From fork to GA in less than a month
34:00 - Valkey roadmap and Contributor Summit updates
40:00 - Valkey’s Technical Steering Committee and leadership
44:14 - what Valkey latest GA is about
Resources:
Valkey announced: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/horovits_redis-opensource-activity-7179186700470861824-Gghq
Valkey first GA and new member companies: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/horovits_redis-valkey-valkey-activity-7186263342041198593-fsY3
Announcements from Valkey's first Contributor Summit: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/horovits_valkey-welcomes-new-partners-amid-growing-activity-7209084153718362112-OfdI/
For Kubernetes 10th anniversary - special episode with Kelsey Hightower: https://logz.io/blog/kubernetes-and-beyond-2023-reflection/?utm_source=devrel&utm_medium=devrel
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Dotan Horovits
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Kyle Davis
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Mastodon: @linux_mclinuxface@fosstodon.org
In the past few years we’ve been witnessing tectonic shifts in the open source realm, with established projects taken off open source or otherwise turning to the dark side. On the other hand, we’ve seen active forks aiming to keep these projects open gaining momentum.
What does it mean for the Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) movement? Is this a trend or just a passing wave? What can we learn from it as vendors and as a community?
In this special episode concluding the fourth season of OpenObservability talks we will look back at the past year, including the very recent relicensing of Redis, and will discuss the state of open source with the help of open source pundit David Nalley.
David has been involved in open source for nearly two decades. He is the director of open source strategy at AWS and currently serves as the President of the Apache Software Foundation and serves on the Board of Directors for the Internet Security Research Group.
The episode was live-streamed on 28 May 2024 and the video is available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WV0ESadKuVI
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Show Notes:
00:00 - Show intro and fourth season ending
00:55 - Episode and guest intro
09:50 - Redis relicensing off open source
16:34 - is vendor-owned open source an oxymoron?
20:00 - building business plan around open source
27:52 - what it means for users when a project relicenses
35:08 - Open Source is more than licenses and copyright
42:19 - Forks of relicensed projects to keep them open
49:55 - Open source strategy at AWS
53:39 - The role of OSS foundations
58:59 - upcoming Community Over Code and KCD Czech and Slovak
1:00:01 - Outro
Resources:
Open Source Definition: https://opensource.org/osd
The Four Opens (Open Infra): https://openinfra.dev/four-opens/
Is Vendor Owned Open Source An Oxymoron? https://horovits.medium.com/b5486a4de1c6
Redis is no longer open source: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/horovits_opensource-srecon-activity-7176599258156986369-3tJm/
Initiating the Valkey fork of Redis: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/horovits_redis-opensource-activity-7179186700470861824-Gghq/
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Dotan Horovits
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David Nalley
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LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidnalley/
KubeCon Europe 2024 in Paris was the biggest event of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) to date, with over 12k participants. Have you missed it? We've got you covered! Join not one but two CNCF Ambassadors as they explore the latest and greatest highlights from the event that every tech enthusiast is talking about.
But that's not all! We'll also zoom in on K8sgpt, a new entrant to the CNCF’s sandbox that uses generative AI to give Kubernetes superpowers to everyone. Does this open source project go beyond the GenAI hype and get us closer to diagnosing and triaging issues in plain English? Let’s ask the maintainers behind the project.
Our guest is Thomas Schuetz, a Principal Cloud Architect with a keen interest in cloud-native application delivery. Thomas teaches at an Austrian University of Applied Sciences, focusing on cloud-native technologies. Thomas is enthusiastic about open source projects, contributing as a Keptn GC Member and K8sGPT Maintainer, alongside his role as Co-Chair of the CNCF TAG App Delivery. He also brings a deep industry background from his past roles at Dynatrace and more.
The episode was live-streamed on 14 April 2024 and the video is available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xr3viuhssdg
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Show Notes:
00:00 - Show intro
00:59 - Episode and guest intro
03:15 - Redis moves off open source
05:21 - AI white paper
07:47 - TAG App Delivery updates
12:15 - Istio beta release of ambient mode
12:57 - Fluent Bit v3 major release
13:57 - Keptn project updates
17:20 - OpenCost adds environment sustainability
18:43 - OpenFeature adds client-side support with web SDK v1
20:08 - Perses 0.44 release
21:40 - K8sGPT founding team
24:07 - K8sGPT intro
27:36 - how K8sGPT works
31:28 - no vendor behind K8sGPT
36:10 - integration with multiple Gen AI services and local models
40:16 - K8sGPT current state and maturity
45:11 - K8sGPT traction
48:40 - K8sGPT acceptance into the sandbox and adopter companies
54:11 - how to reach out to Thomas Schuetz
56:09 - who’s behind K8sGPT
59:07 - where to follow K8sGPT
1:00:17 - Outro
Resources:
https://github.com/k8sgpt-ai/k8sgpt
Cloud Native Artificial Intelligence whitepaper
TAG App Delivery update at KubeCon Paris
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Dotan Horovits ============ Twitter: https://twitter.com/horovits LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/horovits/ Mastodon: https://fosstodon.org/@horovits Thomas Schuetz =============== Twitter: https://twitter.com/thschue LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/thschue Mastodon: https://hachyderm.io/@thschue
OpenTelemetry is expanding beyond the traditional “three pillars of observability” and introduces a groundbreaking addition to its signals - Continuous Profiling. The new Profiling Special Interest Group (SIG) that was formed to lead the topic has already made significant advancements, to be featured at KubeCon Europe. Join us in this special panel episode of OpenObservability Talks as we explore the significance of this new dimension in understanding application behavior, optimizing performance, and gaining deeper insights into your systems. Our expert guests, Felix Geisendörfer and Ryan Perry, members of the OpenTelemetry Profiling SIG, share their insights into how Profiling enhances the OpenTelemetry framework, and update on the work for open specification and implementation.
This special episode hosts a panel of two distinguished members of OpenTelemetry’s Profile SIG, and prominent members of the observability vendor ecosystem. Felix Geisendörfer is a Senior Staff Engineer at Datadog where he works on Continuous Profiling and contributes to the Go runtime. Before that he was working at Apple, co-founded Transloadit, contributed to node.js and inspired a generation of mad scientists to program flying robots with it. Ryan Perry is Principal Product Manager at Grafana Labs. He has built a career at various startups while actively contributing to open source projects and advancing open telemetry initiatives. Most recently he built Pyroscope, an open source continuous profiling project/company, which has been acquired by Grafana Labs.
The episode was live-streamed on 7 March 2024 and the video is available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGM67RT12gQ
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Show Notes:
00:00 - show intro
01:03 - episode and guests intro
04:02 - trends and advancements in the Profiling space
05:42 - from cost and performance into broader observability
11:27 - turning profile data into metrics
12:45 - runtime vs. full host profilers and eBPF use
18:44 - pprof JFR and other existing profile standards
21:19 - profile visualizations - from flame graphs to timeline view
22:37 - entrepreneur PoV on the profiling market
26:54 - OpenTelemetry adds profiles as a new signal
32:22 - OTel choosing a pprof extended standard
39:06 - discrete events vs. pre-aggregated data
41:09 - use cases for processing profiling data
44:19 - OTel Profiles reference implementation
49:11 - latest milestone and roadmap
54:44 - who’s involved in OTel Profiles
56:41 - how to follow OTel Profiles and the guests
59:34 - March community events and conferences
1:00:38 - Falco and CloudEvents projects reached CNCF graduation
1:01:59 - Prometheus and Linkerd latest releases
1:03:29 - Netflix open-sources bpftop CLI for eBPF app performance monitoring
1:05:15 - show outro
Resources:
Continuous Profiling: A New Observability Signal (previous episode): https://logz.io/blog/continuous-profiling-new-observability-signal-in-opentelemetry/?utm_source=devrel&utm_medium=devrel
OpenTelemetry extension proposal for adding Profiles: https://github.com/open-telemetry/oteps/pull/239
OTel Profile SIG notes: https://docs.google.com/document/d/19UqPPPlGE83N37MhS93uRlxsP1_wGxQ33Qv6CDHaEp0/edit#heading=h.63a4klfdbcob
eBPF adoption in observability - github stats: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7171044354667585537/
ProfilerPedia: https://profilerpedia.markhansen.co.nz/
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