We manage a large AWS, Azure, and on-premises environment and have used Datadog for several years. Our observability setup has accumulated considerable technical debt: agents are managed differently…
We're running several microservices with OpenTelemetry and Tempo, but reduced tracing to about 5% to keep costs under control. What's your usual workflow when you need a complete…
We're running several microservices with OpenTelemetry and Tempo, but reduced head-based sampling to 5% to control observability costs. What's the best workflow when you need to investigate a…
I'm a senior DevOps engineer at a mid-sized e-commerce company in India, and we're planning to replace our current Coralogix and CloudWatch setup. We run about 200 mostly…
I work for two companies: one has a large budget for Datadog, while the other is a small organization with only three engineers. We currently run Prometheus, Grafana,…
We're adding tracing to a mobile app and would like its spans to connect with backend traces using the same trace_id, so a user action can be followed…
We're making OpenAI and Anthropic calls from several services, but we have no reliable month-to-month view of which service or team is driving the bill until the provider…
I'm monitoring a Kubernetes cluster with Grafana, but the usual metrics arrive too slowly to explain short traffic spikes. The current setup relies on Kubernetes Metrics Server, and…
I've been diving into Docker lately, using 'The Ultimate Docker Container' book as my main resource. While it's mostly solid, some parts are feeling a bit outdated, particularly…
Hey everyone, I'm using OpenTelemetry's auto-instrumentors to monitor my Python application. They successfully instrument certain frameworks like FastAPI and OpenAI, generating spans for specific events like requests and…
I'm relatively new to monitoring logs and metrics, and I've come across Grafana Alloy (they refer to it as Alloy) being used in one of our K8s clusters.…