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OpenObservability TalksCNCF Ambassadors Share the Best of KubeCon EU 2025 - OpenObservability Talks S5E11KubeCon 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...2025-04-281h 02
OpenObservability TalksObservability for Mobile with OpenTelemetry - OpenObservability Talks S5E10Observability 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 A...2025-03-271h 03
Page it to the LimitThe Dark Side of Open Source With Dotan Horovits.Additional Resources
Dark Side of Open Source: The Community Strikes Back
Open Observability Talks podcast
What is Copyleft?
Open Source Summit, a Linux Foundation event
Vim After Bram: A Core Maintainer on How They’ve Kept it Going
State of Open Con
CNCF - The Cloud Native Computing Foundation
PagerDuty Home Page
Episode edited by Mandy Moore
Transcripts by Rev
2025-03-0433 minPage it to the LimitThe Dark Side of Open Source With Dotan Horovits.Additional Resources
Dark Side of Open Source: The Community Strikes Back
Open Observability Talks podcast
What is Copyleft?
Open Source Summit, a Linux Foundation event
Vim After Bram: A Core Maintainer on How They’ve Kept it Going
State of Open Con
CNCF - The Cloud Native Computing Foundation
PagerDuty Home Page
Episode edited by Mandy Moore
Transcripts by Rev
2025-03-0433 min
OpenObservability TalksShopify’s Journey to Planet-Scale Observability - OpenObservability Talks S5E09Shopify 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. Elij...2025-02-271h 00
OpenObservability TalksOpen Source AI: Perspectives from the OSI - OpenObservability Talks S5E08We 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 delv...2025-01-301h 01
OpenObservability TalksEnd-of-Year Observability Retrospective with Charity Majors - OpenObservability Talks S5E07In 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....2024-12-221h 01
OpenObservability TalksCNCF Ambassadors Share the Best of KubeCon 2024 - OpenObservability Talks S5E06Catch 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: t...2024-11-2559 min
Open at IntelOpen Source ObservabilityIn this episode, Katherine Druckman interviews Dotan Horvits, a CNCF ambassador involved in the cloud native and open source community. Dotan shares insights on his passion for DevOps, observability, and his podcast 'Open Observability Talks.' He discusses his recent focus on CI/CD observability within the CNCF realm, the value and challenges of standardizing observability in release pipelines, and the role of AI in future observability improvements. The conversation also touches on the importance of developer experience, the evolving landscape of observability, and upcoming advancements in projects like Jaeger and Prometheus. Dotan emphasizes the importance of open source...2024-11-0628 minOpen at IntelOpen Source ObservabilityIn this episode, Katherine Druckman interviews Dotan Horvits, a CNCF ambassador involved in the cloud native and open source community. Dotan shares insights on his passion for DevOps, observability, and his podcast 'Open Observability Talks.' He discusses his recent focus on CI/CD observability within the CNCF realm, the value and challenges of standardizing observability in release pipelines, and the role of AI in future observability improvements. The conversation also touches on the importance of developer experience, the evolving landscape of observability, and upcoming advancements in projects like Jaeger and Prometheus. Dotan emphasizes the importance of open source...2024-11-0628 min
OpenObservability TalksJaeger V2 Unveiled: Powered by OpenTelemetry - OpenObservability Talks S5E05In 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...2024-10-281h 03
More than a refresh: Conversations with the most interesting people you've never metEpisode 51: Dotan Horovits, CNCF Ambassador and OpenObservability Talks Podcast HostWelcome to episode 51 of More Than a Refresh, where JD sits down with Dotan Horovits, CNCF Ambassador and OpenObservability Talks Podcast Host. This episode is part of our series with The Open Source Observability Day Conference, where we're giving conference speakers an opportunity to speak beyond their abstract.
In this episode, Dotan and JD discuss buzz word compliance, solutions looking for problems, and observability as more than just three pillars.
For more information on The OSOD Conference, please visit https://osoday.com/
You can listen to The OpenObservability Talks Podcast here: https://podcasters.spot...2024-10-2443 min
OpenObservability TalksPrometheus 3.0 Unveiled: PromCon Highlights with Julius Volz - OpenObservability Talks S5E04PromCon, 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...2024-09-121h 06
OpenObservability TalksWhat’s New with OpenShift and the Observability Frontier - OpenObservability Talks S5E03OpenShift 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 so...2024-08-281h 04
Pulling the StringsOpen Source: “More than a License” but Not Quite a Business Model with Dotan HorovitsAfter several decades of use, should we consider open source software (OSS) a business model? In short: No! In this conversation, open source evangelist Javier Perez welcomes technology evangelist and CNCF ambassador Dotan Horovits to provide context for the biggest changes happening in OSS, discuss what a sustainable future looks like for open source, and explain what to do when companies choose to go not-so-open with their source code.Highlights:Why open source shouldn’t be considered a business modelThe “disturbing trend” in OSS and why “nothing is written in stone” when it comes to open sourceHow...2024-07-2635 min
OpenObservability TalksWebAssembly: The Next Frontier in Cloud-Native Evolution - OpenObservability Talks S5E02Time 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 th...2024-07-251h 02
OpenObservability TalksRedis is No Longer Open Source. Is Valkey the Successor? - OpenObservability Talks S5E01Redis 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 ex...2024-06-271h 00
OpenObservability TalksFOSS in Flux: Redis Relicensing and the Future of Open Source: OpenObservability Talks S4E12In 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...2024-05-301h 01
Kubernetes UnpackedKU054: OpenTelemetry: Open Source ObservabilityObservability is foundational to application and infrastructure performance. That’s why it’s fitting that OpenTelemetry is the second most active project in the CNCF after Kubernetes. Today CNCF ambassador Dotan Horovits tells us about the project: OpenTelemetry is a uniform, vendor-agnostic observability framework for generating and collecting telemetry data across both infrastructure and application, across different... Read more »2024-04-2500 min
OpenObservability TalksKubeCon Paris Highlights and AI Spotlight on K8sGPT - OpenObservability Talks S4E11KubeCon 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 d...2024-04-241h 01
OpenObservability TalksCharting New Territory: OpenTelemetry Embraces Profiling - OpenObservability Talks S4E10OpenTelemetry 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 enhan...2024-03-281h 06
OpenObservability TalksDecoding .NET8: Unveiling Cloud-Native Observability - OpenObservability Talks S4E09The .NET programming language is taking cloud native deployment and observability seriously, and most notably with the recent announcement of .NET Aspire stack unveiled at the recent .NET Conf 2023.
In this episode, we reviewed the open source maintainers’ journey to making .NET a "by default, out of the box observable platform", as ASP.NET Core creator David Fowler put it. David was this episode’s guest, and with him we dived into .NET Aspire and how it simplifies the complexities of cloud app development with capabilities around service discovery, observability, and resilience. We discussed the local developer exper...2024-02-291h 05
OpenObservability TalksScaling Platform Engineering: Shopify’s Blueprint - OpenObservability Talks S4E08In this episode, join us as we delve into the intricate world of Platform Engineering with Aparna Subramanian, Director of Production Engineering at Shopify. Discover how Shopify, a powerhouse in e-commerce, masters the art of scaling platform engineering. Gain invaluable insights into their strategies, innovations, and lessons learned while navigating the complexities of sustaining and evolving a robust infrastructure to support millions, even through special peak events like Black Friday and Cyber Monday. If you're keen on understanding the backbone of a thriving online platform, don’t miss out on this episode.
Aparna started her career as a...2024-01-251h 00
OpenObservability TalksKubernetes and Beyond: A Year-End Reflection with Kelsey Hightower - OpenObservability Talks S4E07In this special episode we wrapped up the year 2023 with none other than the cloud-native maestro, Kelsey Hightower! We looked into the highs and lows of the tech landscape, exploring Kelsey's insights on containerization and beyond. Tune in as we unravel the year that was and reflect on what lies ahead for Kubernetes and cloud computing.
Kelsey has been there since the birth of Kubernetes, with his contributions to the project as well as his advocacy for containers and cloud native tech and concepts. Join us to conclude 2023 with a look above the clouds.
The...2023-12-211h 01
DevOps Accents#25: Observability and Monitoring with Dotan Horovits from logz.ioIn this episode of DevOps Accents, Pablo and Leo talk to Dotan Horovits, a developer advocate from logz.io
What is developer advocacy and developer evangelism and why it's not marketing?
Observability and Monitoring: how important are they in the Pipeline today?
How did it work before and why is it a separate thing at all?
Who should interpret the data that this tooling collects?
Why is it so expensive to have Observability?
Should each individual developer monitor their own data?
Our guest, Dotan: https://www.linkedin.com/in/horovits
personal blog, https://horovits.medium.com
...2023-12-1249 min
OpenObservability TalksKubeCon NA Highlights and Istio Spotlight with Lin Sun - OpenObservability Talks S4E06Have you missed KubeCon North America in Chicago? This one’s for you! In this episode, we explored the latest and greatest highlights from the event that every tech enthusiast is talking about. From cutting-edge innovations to industry insights, we've got the broad spectrum covered.
But that's not all! We'll also zoomed in on Istio, the popular service mesh open source project that has just recently reached CNCF graduation. Join us as we map out the service mesh universe, and then dive into Istio's galaxy, unraveling its architecture, features, and the roadmap direction with Ambient. And you’ll ge...2023-11-301h 00
OpenObservability TalksPromCon Recap: Unveiling Perses and Prometheus Ecosystem Updates - OpenObservability Talks S4E05PromCon, the flagship yearly event of the Prometheus community, took place in Berlin 28-29 September 2023, and we’re here to bring you the highlights from the Prometheus ecosystem, including the pivotal decision on Prometheus 3.0! Brace yourselves for some exciting announcements!
We also delved into the latest addition to the ecosystem, Perses project, which promises to revolutionize the world of dashboard visualization and monitoring. This new open source project, now part of the Linux Foundation, aims to become the GitOps-friendly standard dashboard visualization tool for Prometheus and other data sources.
On this episode I hosted Augustin Husson, Prometheus maintainer and th...2023-10-311h 11
OpenObservability TalksContinuous Observability: Shedding Light on CI/CD Pipelines - OpenObservability Talks S4E02DevOps is not just about operating the software in production, but also about releasing that software to production. Well-functioning CI/CD pipelines are critical for the business, and this calls for quality observability, to handle broken and flaky pipeline runs effectively.
On this episode I hosted Oleg Nenashev, a core maintainer and board member in the Jenkins project, as well as a TOC member in the Continuous Delivery Foundation (CDF). Oleg is a community builder, open source advocate and consultant, now at WireMock Inc. He is also a CDF and CNCF ambassador.
We discussed CI/CD, observability, the prominent...2023-10-311h 00
OpenObservability TalksTerraform is no longer open source. Is OpenTofu the successor? - OpenObservability Talks S4E04Terraform is no longer open source. This is the news we got last month (August 2023), when HashiCorp announced its decision to relicense its open source tools, including Terraform, Vault, Packer, Consul, Vagrant and others, into Business Source License 1.1.
The community, led by active Terraform-based vendors, gathered up to create a fork of Terraform to keep it open. The result is OpenTofu (originally called OpenTF), whose manifesto already has tens of thousands of stars on GitHub, less than a month out. Only a month old, engineers are hard at work to establish the first release of OpenTofu, as well as...2023-09-211h 09
The Cloud GambitThe Dark Side of Open Source with Dotan HorovitsSend us a textMeet Dotan Horovits, Principal Developer Advocate at logz.io, Cloud Native Ambassador for the CNCF, and host of the Open Observability Talks Podcast. In this conversation, we discuss the current state of open source software, the broad scope of licensing, and why there is so much more to open source beyond the licensing.Where to find DotanLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/horovits/Twitter: https://twitter.com/horovitsMedium: https://horovits.medium.com/OpenObservability YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@openobservabilitytalksOpenObservability Podcast: podcasters.spotify.com...2023-09-0540 min
OpenObservability TalksWhat's New with Fluentd & Fluent Bit - OpenObservability Talks S4E03Fluentd and Fluent Bit are two highly popular open source projects for data collection and log forwarding in the realm of observability. Fluentd's flexibility and scalability have led to seamless integration with diverse applications and data sources, while Fluent Bit's lightweight and efficient log forwarding have made it a preferred choice for modern observability pipelines. But Fluent Bit can process more than just logs. The recent release of Fluent Bit v2 added major new integrations with OpenTelemetry, Prometheus and more, as well as extensibility with WebAssembly plugins.
On this episode I hosted Eduardo Silva Pereira, one of...2023-08-3158 min
DevOps ParadoxVendors and Communities Working Together in Open Source#223: Maybe you’ve been in the tech space for years and you’re ready to get into open source. On the other hand, you may be fresh out of school and you’re trying to build your CV. What project should you start to work on? The answer is easier than you think. In this episode, we speak with Dotan Horovits, Principal Developer Advocate at Logz.io, on topics ranging from running an in-person event to the proper way to engage in open source communities. Dotan’s contact information: Twitter: https://twitter.c...2023-08-0946 min
OpenObservability TalkseBay’s Journey to Planet-Scale Observability with Open Source - OpenObservability Talks S4E01eBay is a high scale end user of open source observability. Collecting telemetry from millions of endpoints, and running thousands of queries per second, presents serious scaling challenges. eBay has chosen to use an open source stack to meet those challenges.
On this episode I hosted Vijay Samuel, Observability Architect at eBay, to hear about the challenges eBay faced in monitoring large Kubernetes installations. We discussed why eBay chose the open source stack, and the strategic decision behind eBay's migration from Elastic Beats to OpenTelemetry, and the remarkable experiences they had while deploying massively large scale telemetry installations using...2023-06-291h 00
Software Defined TalkDotan Horovits on DevRel and OpenTelemetryMatt Ray interviews CNCF Ambassador and Logz.io Principal Developer Advocate Dotan Horovits. They discuss the Israel tech scene, getting started with OpenTelemetry, and working in developer relations.
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OpenObservability TalksFrom Spotify to Open Source: The Backstory of Backstage - OpenObservability Talks S3E12With over 1,000 companies using it and 21.5K+ stars on GitHub, the Backstage open source project is quickly becoming a go-to tool for managing developer infrastructure. In this episode, I’ll sit down with Lee Mills, a Senior Engineering Manager from Spotify's Backstage project, to learn more about how the open source platform is revolutionizing the developer experience and how it aligns with the growing Internal Developer Platform (IDP) space. We’ll discuss the need that drove Spotify to build this internal tool, about the decision and journey to open source it and donate it to the CNCF (Cloud Native Comp...2023-05-3147 min
OpenObservability TalksLive from KubeCon: Insider Insights with CNCF's Head of Ecosystem - OpenObservability Talks S3E11This is a special episode, live from the KubeCon show floor in Amsterdam. Join us to hear the hot updates from KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2023 as well as insider insights from the CNCF’s head of ecosystem, Taylor Dolezal.
Taylor works on infrastructure tools that enable innovation. He specializes in Kubernetes, Terraform, public clouds, and distributed systems. Taylor will also deliver the opening keynote on the upcoming KubeCon EU in Amsterdam.
The episode was live-streamed on 20 April 2023 and the video is available at https://www.youtube.com/live/a9D5p0SaKL8?feature=share
OpenObservability Talks episodes are re...2023-04-2727 min
SustainEpisode 170: Smera Goel & Dotan Horovits at FOSS Backstage 2023Guests
Smera Goel | Dotan Horovits
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Richard Littauer
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Hello and welcome to Sustain! On this episode, Richard is at the FOSS Backstage 2023 that is held in Berlin every year.
Today, Richard has two guests joining him. He meets up with Smera Goel who was featured on Episode 3 of our Sustain Open Source Design Podcast. Richard catches up with her and what has been going on the past year and a half. Smera is a Product Designer and an Outreachy Mentor for Fedora. She is also...2023-04-2540 min
OpenObservability TalksCloud Native Unplugged: A Fireside Chat with CNCF's CTO - OpenObservability Talks S3E10The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) is the home of the most prominent open source projects used today, such as Kubernetes, Prometheus, ArgoCD, Linkerd and more. These projects fuel today’s cloud native architectures and software release pipelines. With its immense growth, it has become difficult to keep tabs on the hundreds of new and evolving projects and specifications, the different working groups and technical advisory groups, the different community forums and events, and to see where it’s all heading.
I invited Chris Aniszczyk, CTO of the CNCF, to join me on this episode, to help us u...2023-03-301h 05
OpenObservability TalksFinOps Observability: Monitoring Kubernetes Cost with OpenCost - OpenObservability Talks S3E09Many organizations struggle in understanding and monitoring the costs of their Kubernetes workloads, cloud infrastructure and cloud native applications. Moreover, different cloud providers use different conventions, which makes it difficult to compare across vendors and to monitor cost in multi-cloud environments. The lack of cost observability and vendor-agnostic FinOps standardization can become a critical business challenge.
OpenCost is a vendor-neutral open source project for measuring and allocating infrastructure and container costs. It’s built for Kubernetes cost monitoring to power real-time cost monitoring, showback, and chargeback, across on-premises Kubernetes as well as cloud managed offering.
I di...2023-02-231h 01
Mechanical Ink PodcastInteresting finds - February 22, 2023 - Mechanical Ink PodcastIn our third installment of interesting finds, we cover overreach by South African educational institutions. Open Assistant, an open-source alternative to OpenAI and ChatGPT. We provide a different perspective on the core-js story and highlight a talk by Kris Nòva, who tells the story of Hachyderm. We close out the episode by talking about sustaining open-source and a new fund from the Open Technology fund.Other news Designing Tech for Social Cohesion - In person - Online Google season of docs - For projects - For writers2023-02-2217 min
OpenObservability TalksIs Kubernetes Monitoring Flawed? - OpenObservability Talks S3E08A 3-node Kubernetes cluster with Prometheus will ship around 40k active series by default! Do we really need all that data? The current state of Kubernetes open source monitoring is in need of improvement. High churn rate of pod metrics, proliferation of metrics with low usage, and configuration complexity are some of the issues that need to be addressed.
I discussed this topic with Aliaksandr Valialkin, CTO at VictoriaMetrics and creator of the open source project. We discussed the common problems, as well as directions and best practices to overcome some of these complexities as individuals and...2023-01-261h 00
OpenObservability TalksWhat's new in the Prometheus ecosystem? - OpenObservability Talks S3E07So much has been going on with the Prometheus project and its ecosystem, that it’s time to have a proper catch up. And there’s no better person to walk us through it than Julien Pivotto, who debriefed the community last month at PromCon.
Julien Pivotto is a maintainer of Prometheus, the open source monitoring and alerting solution. He is the co-founder of the company O11y, that provides premium support for open source observability tools such as Prometheus, Thanos and Grafana.
The episode was live-streamed on 19 December 2022 and the video is available at http...2022-12-261h 04
OpenObservability TalksMeta’s data driven approach to observability - OpenObservability Talks S3E06At Meta (Facebook, Instragram et al) everything is data, and data driven approach is the rule, from product to engineering, from HR to finance. This is also how the team at Meta treats observability. Let’s see how we treat observability as a data analytics problem, and what you can implement, even if you’re not a hyperscaler.
On this episode I’ll host David Ostrovsky from Meta. David is a software developer with over 20 years of industry experience, speaker, trainer, blogger and co-author of “Pro Couchbase Server”. He specializes in large-scale distributed system architecture.
The episod...2022-11-231h 00
OpenObservability TalksPlatform Engineering: DevOps evolution or a fancy rename? - OpenObservability Talks S3E05Everyone’s talking about Platform Engineering these days. Even Gartner featured it in its Hype Cycle for Software Engineering 2022. But what is Platform Engineering really about? Is it the next stage in the evolution of DevOps? Is it just a fancy rebrand for DevOps or SRE? And how does observability pertain to platform engineering?
On this episode of OpenObservability Talks Horovits hosted George Hantzaras, Director of Cloud Platform Engineering at Citrix. George is a distributed systems expert and a hands-on engineering leader with focus on delivering B2B cloud services at scale. Coming from a DevOps background, he...2022-10-2758 min
OpenObservability TalksWhere Are My App’s Traces?? Instrumentation in Practice - OpenObservability Talks S3E04Instrumentation is that black magic that makes our application emit traces, logs, metrics or other telemetry. How does it work? What options are available in different programming languages, such as Java, Python and Go? What does OpenTelemetry offer in this domain?
On this episode of OpenObservability Talks I hosted Eden Federman, Co-Founder & CTO at keyval, a company focused on making observability simpler. Eden is the creator of two open source projects: Odigos and Go automatic instrumentation (now part of OpenTelemetry). Eden is passionate about everything related to observability and performance monitoring. He also created kubectl-flame, a profiler f...2022-09-291h 00
Tech LoungeDotan Horovits of Logz.io, watch your heroes and the life of ClippyIn this episode I speak with Dotan Horowits from Logz.io about Observability and OpenTelemetry. Also features how much GPT-3 truly knows about you, the life of clippy and why you should always have an air of scepticism in what you read.Magic mind discount codes The next 10 days, you can get 40% off your subscription at: https://www.magicmind.co/chinchilla A 20% discount code of any single purchase: CHINCHILLA20--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/chinchillasqueaks/message This is a public episode...2022-09-1542 min
OpenObservability TalksSigNoz: Open-source observability with Pranay - OpenObservability Talks S3E03In this episode, hosted by Jonah Kowall we are excited to introduce Pranay Prateek the co-founder and creator of SigNoz to the audience. He is an entrepreneur who has been building an interesting and exciting open-source observability platform. The goal is a unified interface and data storage system which is scalable and manageable much more easily than today’s disjointed open-source tools. SigNoz has a goal of unifying tracing, metrics, and logging in a single platform and interface. We’ll dig into the evolution of this unique project from its creation until today, along with the adoption of the tech...2022-08-2556 min
StackPod#18 Tech: Why It’s Always About the People and Never About the Technology With Jujhar Singh of ThoughtworksI am so excited to announce the guest of this show: Jujhar Singh! A few episodes ago, we talked with fellow podcaster and tech evangelist Dotan Horovits. During that episode, Dotan shared with us that he wrote a blog post together with Jujhar called ‘How Much Observability Is Enough?’, and we were eager to invite Jujhar to the StackPod as well to dive into this topic a bit more.
So, to give you some background information: Jujhar has worked in tech since he was very young and when he was in his mid twenties, he was already an I...2022-07-2831 min
Podcast Fabriek#18 Tech: Why It’s Always About the People and Never About the Technology With Jujhar Singh of ThoughtworksI am so excited to announce the guest of this show: Jujhar Singh! A few episodes ago, we talked with fellow podcaster and tech evangelist Dotan Horovits. During that episode, Dotan shared with us that he wrote a blog post together with Jujhar called ‘How Much Observability Is Enough?’, and we were eager to invite Jujhar to the StackPod as well to dive into this topic a bit more.
So, to give you some background information: Jujhar has worked in tech since he was very young and when he was in his mid twenties, he was already an I...2022-07-2831 min
OpenObservability TalksExpensive Observability: The Cardinality Challenge - OpenObservability Talks S3E02We all collect logs, metrics and perhaps traces and other data types, in support of our observability. But this can get expensive pretty quickly, especially in microservices based systems, in what is commonly known as “the cardinality problem”.
On this episode of OpenObservability Talks I’ll host Ben Sigelman, co-founder and the GM of Lightstep, to discuss this data problem and how to overcome it. Ben architected Google’s own planet-scale metrics and distributed tracing systems (still in production today), and went on to co-create the open-source OpenTracing and OpenTelemetry projects, both part of the CNCF.
The epi...2022-07-281h 00
OpenObservability TalksOpenTelemetry and the Vision for Unified Open Observability - OpenObservability Talks S3E01OpenTelemetry is one of the most fascinating and ambitious open source projects of this era. It’s currently the second most active project in the CNCF (the Cloud Native Computing Foundation), with only Kubernetes being more active. The entire industry is aligning behind this project, including incumbent monitoring vendors that were deeply vested in proprietary and closed-source agents to that end.
In this episode of OpenObservability Talks I’ll host Alolita Sharma to discuss OpenTelemetry, its origins and mission statement, as well as updates hot off the press from the recent KubeCon conference in Valencia about releases and...2022-06-281h 00
Podcast Fabriek#16 Dotan Horovits on Why Observability Is a Data Analytics ProblemIn today’s episode, we are talking to fellow podcaster Dotan Horovits. Dotan is an open source and technology enthusiast: he is the host of the OpenObservability podcast, he writes articles about open source and observability, he is an avid speaker at events like KubeCon and Conf42, he’s a co-organizer of Cloud Native Computing Foundation’s local chapter in Tel Aviv, Israel and in his day job, he is a developer advocate at Logz.io.
One of Dotan’s recent blog posts is titled: “Observability is a Data Analytics Problem,” and in this blog post he explains tha...2022-06-2331 min
StackPod#16 Dotan Horovits on Why Observability Is a Data Analytics ProblemIn today’s episode, we are talking to fellow podcaster Dotan Horovits. Dotan is an open source and technology enthusiast: he is the host of the OpenObservability podcast, he writes articles about open source and observability, he is an avid speaker at events like KubeCon and Conf42, he’s a co-organizer of Cloud Native Computing Foundation’s local chapter in Tel Aviv, Israel and in his day job, he is a developer advocate at Logz.io.
One of Dotan’s recent blog posts is titled: “Observability is a Data Analytics Problem,” and in this blog post he explains tha...2022-06-2331 min
OpenObservability TalksObservability for Developers Demystified - OpenObservability Talks E2E12Developers hate monitoring, but we need it. We need it in many points of the software development lifecycle: before deprecating an API, before launching a new feature, after launching the feature, and more. In fact, monitoring needs can vary much more than the classic Ops monitoring.
In this episode I’ll host Liran Haimovitch to discuss how to determine what developers should be monitoring, the difference between observability for Dev and for Ops, and how observability fits into our current dev tools, dev stack and dev processes.
Liran is the Co-Founder and CTO of Rookout. He...2022-05-2658 min
OpenObservability TalksOpenSearch 2.0 and beyond with Eli - OpenObservability Talks E2E11OpenSearch is a community-driven, open-source search and analytics suite derived from Apache 2.0 licensed Elasticsearch 7.10.2 & Kibana 7.10.2. The OpenSearch project started just over a year ago and is now the open-source alternative to ELK, which is no longer open source. The team has spent much of the last year getting the project going, but there was innovation as well. We will cover and discuss what OpenSearch has accomplished, but more importantly what’s coming next, including a big 2.0 release. We are joined in this episode by Eli Fisher, who is the product lead at AWS, working on the OpenSearch project. He’ll d...2022-04-281h 01
OpenObservability TalksSLO Driven Engineering: from Dev to Prod - OpenObservability Talks S2E10Google’s SRE Book popularized the concept of Service Level Objective (SLO) and the SLO-driven approach. But what does it really mean to make SLO driven decisions? How can we generate observability and synchronize teams around joint SLOs? And how can we automate SLOs and integrate them into the software release pipeline?
In this episode I’ll host Andreas Grabner. We’ll discuss the SRE practices, and how to automate SLO from dev all the way to prod. We’ll talk about the open source efforts to standardize the process under the Continuous Delivery Foundation, and about Keptn, t...2022-03-3059 min
OpenObservability TalksBuilding web-scale observability at Slack, Pinterest & Twitter - OpenObservability Talks S2E09What does it take to build observability in a web-scale company such as Slack, Pinterest and Twitter?
On this episode of OpenObsevability Talks I'll host Suman Karumuri to hear how he built these systems from the ground up on these #BigTech co's, about his recent research papers and more.
Suman Karumuri is a Sr. Staff Software Engineer and the tech lead for Observability at Slack. Suman Karumuri is an expert in distributed tracing and was a tech lead of Zipkin and a co-author of OpenTracing standard, a Linux Foundation project via the CNCF. Previously, Suman...2022-02-2758 min
OpenObservability TalksSaaS Observability Done Right - OpenObservability Talks S2E08SaaS (software as a service) is a popular model for many businesses today. SaaS businesses need agility to move fast and remain competitive. This means agility in the software IT stack, but also agility in the business models and product-led growth (PLG). Observability plays a key role in enabling SaaS organizations to move fast.
Achieving this agility, however, raises specific observability requirements. On this episode of OpenObservability Talks we’ll host Aviad Mizrachi, the CTO and Co-Founder of Frontegg, to help us map these requirements. Having escorted dozens of SaaS businesses across many verticals, Aviad brings a we...2022-01-3158 min
PurePerformanceOpen Observability: The limits of the 3 pillars with Dotan Horovits“Whether open source or commercial – just focusing on logs, traces and metrics is limiting our conversation and missing the point what observability really is!”, says Dotan Horovits, Tech Evangelist at Logz, in his opening statement in this podcast. Listen an and learn more about why observability is not about collecting data. Observability is rather a data analytics problem as it needs to give humans answers to DevOps, SRE and Business questions.To learn more beyond what was discussed in this podcast listen in to OpenObservability Talks, stay up to date on OpenTelemetry or follow Dotan at @horovitsS...2022-01-3146 min
10KMedia PodcastEpisode 14: Dotan Horovits, Principal Developer Advocate at Logz.ioAdam sits down with Dotan to talk about the evolution of observability and its recent broadening to include security, the importance of open source, and the beauty of the OpenTelemetry project.2022-01-2527 min
The Production-First MindsetLogz.io's Dotan Horovits - Putting The Spotlight On ObservabilityRookout CTO Liran Haimovitch sits down with Dotan Horovits, Principal Advocate at Logz.io. They discuss his passion for open-source and communities…and how that led him to his current position, Open Observability Talks (his own podcast), his take on where OpenTelemetry stands now, and why users make the move from ElasticSearch to OpenSearch.To learn more about the topics discussed in this episode:OpenObservability Talks podcastOpen Source for Better Observability talk, Open Source Summit 2021OpenTelemetry guideState of OpenTelemetry talk at DevOpsDays TLV Logz.io observability platformOpenSearch: The Open Source Successor of ElasticsearchOpenSearch Is Now Gene...2022-01-1024 min
OpenObservability TalksPrometheus Pitfalls and the Rise of Continuous Profiling - OpenObservability Talks S2E07We’ve grown to rely on “the three pillars” for observability - logs, metrics and traces. Popular frameworks such as Prometheus have helped popularize these practices. But now people are starting to realize that it’s not enough.
On this episode Dotan Horovits will host Frederic Branczyk for a discussion about the unspoken pitfalls of Prometheus and the challenges of current observability coverage. We will also discuss the rise of Continuous Profiling as a new observability signal, what it’s about and where it can help. We’ll also review the recent launch of Parca, an open source proje...2021-12-211h 01
OpenObservability TalksBPF origin story and the future of telemetry analytics OpenObservability Talks S2E06OpenObservability Talks S2E06: Hosting Steve McCanne
We hear a lot about BPF in the industry today, applying this flexible technology to solve so many problems from routing, proxying, and of course observability. Correlating events and data from the operating system level across distributed systems is a key problem for the industry and community to solve. I am thrilled to announce Steve McCanne joining us for this episode. I have been lucky enough to spend time with Steve in my career and am delighted to have him join us to discuss the origin stories and where these f...2021-11-231h 02
OpenObservability TalksSRE at Google: Planet-scale observability - OpenObservability Talks S2E05Have you ever wondered how services are operated at Google’s scale? Here’s your opportunity to find out. Ramón will share how his SRE team runs Google’s identity services, and the elaborate end-to-end observability they use to achieve it with strict SLA. We’ll also get a glimpse at the birthplace of Kubernetes, OpenCensus, Dapper, Monarch and other cornerstones of today’s cloud-native DevOps and observability.
Ramón Medrano Llamas (@rmedranollamas) is a staff site reliability engineer at Google, focused on user identity and authentication. He concentrates on the reliability aspects of new Google products and...2021-10-2759 min
OpenObservability TalksObservability Into Your Business And FinOps - OpenObservability Talks S2E04Observability is becoming a common practice for DevOps teams monitoring and troubleshooting IT systems. But Observability can offer much more than that. More advanced usage of telemetry, and in particular distributed tracing and its context propagation mechanism, can uncover insights into your business performance and can help solve business and FinOps problems.
On this episode of OpenObservability Talks I hosted Yuri Shkuro, creator of Jaeger project and a champion of Distributed Tracing, to discuss how tracing and observability can help beyond DevOps, whether on business cases, FinOps or even software development. We also caught up on the...2021-09-191h 06
OpenObservability TalksFluentd for logging and metrics and path forward - OpenObservability Talks S2E03In this episode, we’ll talk with industry veteran and product manager Anurag Gupta who has been working in open source observability for over 4 years. We will go into depth on his background, and how he views the ecosystem of open source. Then we will dig into the Fluentd and Fluent Bit projects and discuss some of the amazing innovations coming from this project. Learn what’s next for logging, and how a consolidated data collection plane is being driven by the Fluentd project.2021-08-2646 min
OpenObservability TalksPrometheus, OpenMetrics, and the CNCF Observability Ecosystem - OpenObservability Talks S2E02The CNCF has a rich suite to address monitoring Kubernetes and cloud-native workloads. First of which is Prometheus, which is widely adopted, with great out-of-the-box compatibility with Kubernetes. But under the CNCF you can also find OpenMetrics that offers standardization of the metrics format, Thanos and Cortex which offer long-term storage for Prometheus, and other complimentary solutions and integrations.
On this episode of OpenObservability Talks we’ll host “RichiH” Hartmann and discuss the different OSS projects, the synergy between them, and the future roadmap in building the community and making CNCF a leading offering.
Richard "RichiH" H...2021-07-251h 09
OpenObservability TalksCodeless Kubernetes Observability with eBPF - OpenObservability Talks S2E01Current observability practice is largely based on manual instrumentation, which creates a barrier to entry for many wishing to implement observability in their environment. This is especially true in Kubernetes environments and microservices architecture.
eBPF (extended Berkeley Packet Filter) is an exciting new technology for Linux kernel level instrumentation, which bears the promise of no-code instrumentation and easier observability into Kubernetes environments (alongside other benefits for networking and security).
On this episode of OpenObservability Talks we’ll host Natalie Serrino, Principal Engineer at Pixie Labs, which was recently acquired by New Relic. We’ll talk abou...2021-06-3056 min
OpenObservability TalksOpenSearch: The Open Source Successor of Elasticsearch? - OpenObservability Talks S1E12OpenSearch project was born out of the passion for Elasticsearch and Kibana and the desire to keep them open source in the face of Elastic’s decision to close-source them. After a couple of months of hard work led by AWS, the Beta release was announced earlier this month under Apache2 license.
On this episode of OpenObservability Talks I hosted Kyle Davis, Senior Developer Advocate for OpenSearch at AWS. We talked about how OpenSearch came to be, what it took to fork Elasticsearch and Kibana, what the engineers discovered when they dug into the code, what’s plan...2021-05-271h 01
OpenObservability TalksDiving deep into Jaeger and OpenTelemetry with Juraci Paixão Kröhling - OpenObservability Talks S1E11We are thrilled to have Juraci Kröhling a Software Engineer at Red Hat; CNCF, Maintainer for Jaeger, and OpenTelemetry. He will be live and in-person this month on the podcast in a discussion with Jonah Kowall who is the CTO at logz.io and contributor to Jaeger, OpenTelemetry, and OpenSearch.2021-04-3056 min
OpenObservability TalksInteroperability of open-source observability and new signal in the neighborhood, profiling! - OpenObservability Talks S1E10Join Jonah Kowall and Bartek Plotka for a discussion on the latest happening topics on open source observability. Bartek works on many projects in open source and is Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat; CNCF SIG Observability Tech Lead. He is very active in the community as one of the leaders of Prometheus, Thanos, OpenMetrics, and many other projects.2021-03-2958 min
OpenObservability TalksHow Much Observability Is Enough? - OpenObservability Talks S1E9The ninth of our OpenObservability Talks has Jujhar Singh, Global DevSecOps Practice Lead at The Economist.
How much observability is enough? What is the investment required to achieve it? How can we drive observability in the company in a measured and pragmatic way?
This was first live-streamed on 25 February 2021 and the video is available at https://youtu.be/sR-Q3Z-YP2E
Show Notes:
How to drive observability in your organization
What is the minimum observability needed for your organization?
The tech stack impact on observability needs
Direct correlation between o...2021-02-2859 min
OpenObservability TalksPut the OPEN in Observability: Elasticsearch and Kibana relicensing and community chat - OpenObservability Talks S1E8The eighth of our OpenObservability Talks has Tomer Levy, CEO & Founder of Logz.io.
The community is in turmoil around Elastic's announced plan to take Elasticsearch and Kibana off open source. In this episode, both Dotan and Mike have the pleasure of hosting Tomer where we discuss the recent news of Elastic moving Elasticsearch and Kibana to a dual non-OSS license - SSPL and Elastic License - and the implications that have on the open source community around it, including plans to fork Elasticsearch and Kibana, AWS announcement and more. We also talk about what Logz.io...2021-01-2837 min
OpenObservability TalksAn Observability chat with Andy Thurai - OpenObservability Talks S1E7The seventh of our OpenObservability Talks has Andy Thurai, Senior Analyst at GigaOM.
Jonah Kowall, CTO and Andy Thurai will talk about Andy's career and journey as a vendor and an analyst. We will discuss the observability market along with APM and other aspects of monitoring. We will then dive into the open-source ecosystem and how this is changing vendor thinking. Of course, we'll also be discussing OpenTelemetry!
Andy Thurai is the Founder & Principal at the FieldCTO providing content and advisory services to enterprise customers in particular on AIOps, CloudOps, AI, ML...2020-12-3144 min
OpenObservability TalksAll Metrics Are Wrong, Some Are Useful - OpenObservability Talks S1E6The sixth of our OpenObservability Talks has Avishai Ish-Shalom, Developer Advocate at ScyllaDB.
We trust our metrics to show us the status of our system and where it misbehaves. But do our metrics show us what really happened? You'd be surprised how often it's not the case.
On this episode we discussed the math behind metrics, some common misconceptions, what it take to have accurate metrics, and if there even is such a thing.
Avishai Ish-Shalom has served as Engineer in Residence in Aleph VC, engineering manager at Wix.com, co-founded Fewbytes and c...2020-11-291h 13
OpenObservability TalksMicroservices Observability for Developers and Pre-Production - OpenObservability Talks S1E5The fifth of our OpenObservability Talks has Michael Haberman, CTO & Co-Founder of Aspecto.
There's a lot of discussion on how to achieve observability in microservices. Most of the discussion revolves around production workflows such as granular monitoring or debugging of complex environments.
A much less discussed aspect is the development stage, before even reaching production. In this talk we will discuss the challenges of microservices environments, and how to leverage tracing for pre-production purposes such as improving your tests, understand dependencies and more.
Michael Haberman is a veteran in the microservices space and...2020-10-3158 min
OpenObservability TalksDistributed Tracing at Uber-Scale - OpenObservability TalksS1E4The fourth of our OpenObservability Talks has Albert Teoh from the Jaeger project.
Distributed tracing has been gaining momentum with the growing popularity of microservices. Jaeger is a popular open source tool originally developed at Uber and now part of the CNCF (Cloud Native Computing Foundation).
Albert had been working at Uber for the past 2.5 years, where he got hands-on with Jaeger. On this talk Albert will share with us his experience with distributed tracing, from introducing it into new code all the way to production. Albert will explain important concepts and considerations, and will...2020-09-3058 min
OpenObservability TalksLong-Term Metrics with M3 and Prometheus - OpenObservability Talks S1E3Episode 3 of OpenObservability Talks, where we'll be hosting Matt Schallert of Chronosphere. The topic for this episode is Long-Term Metrics with M3 and Prometheus.
Prometheus is the de facto solution when getting started with metrics, supporting use cases where a single node can store the entire dataset. When it comes to scaling out workloads or storing long-term data, Prometheus offers the Remote Write and Read interfaces to integrate with other storage solutions.
In this talk, Matt will show attendees how they can scale their existing Prometheus metrics workloads with M3, an open-source metrics platform originated at...2020-08-2753 min
Developer Advocate StoriesDeveloper Advocate Stories - Dotan Horovits - Logz.ioIn this episode, we talked with Dotan Horovits, Product Evangelist @Logz.io, about his former carrier, his work with the community, and how he started his new job as Evangelist during COVID-19 and he managed his experience to start a great community project.
https://community.logz.io/covid-19/2020-08-1311 minDeveloper Advocate StoriesDeveloper Advocate Stories - Dotan Horovits - Logz.ioIn this episode, we talked with Dotan Horovits, Product Evangelist @Logz.io, about his former carrier, his work with the community, and how he started his new job as Evangelist during COVID-19 and he managed his experience to start a great community project.
https://community.logz.io/covid-19/2020-08-1311 min
OpenObservability TalksA chat with Paul Bruce and Jonah Kowall about the OpenTelemetry community - OpenObservability Talks S1E2Episode 2 of OpenObservability Talks, where we'll be hosting Paul Bruce of Neotys and Jonah Kowall of Logz.io. Our topic of discussion today is OpenTelemetry and the thriving community around it.
This was first streamed at https://www.twitch.tv/openobservability on July 30th and the full video is available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OtxYgT-mopY
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OpenObservability TalksFive Tips on Application Monitoring with Prometheus - OpenObservability Talks S1E1Welcome to the first-ever OpenObservability Talks!
This was first streamed at https://www.twitch.tv/openobservability on June 25th and the full video is available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Otb57MNZfKA
You'll get an introduction to the series, a talk by Jack Neely of 42 Lines on Five Tips on Application Monitoring with Prometheus, and a run-through of current events in the world of Open Source Observability and the things that affect it.
If you'd like to submit a session for a later event then just drop it in the CFP...2020-06-2939 min