What happens when capturing vast amounts of data becomes overwhelming instead of insightful? For years, vendors have prioritized collecting vast metrics, boasting thousands of data points. But is this approach beneficial, especially for developers who may not be observability experts? Understanding metrics shouldn't feel like deciphering a foreign language. Coroot is an open source observability platform that helps engineers fix service outages and even prevent them. It continuously audits telemetry data to highlight issues and weak spots in your services.

Levitate is a high-cardinality monitoring tool and a telemetry data warehouse with support for metrics, events, logs, and traces. Prometheus and OpenTelemetry compatibility makes it easy to get started with a hassle-free monitoring journey, be it starting from scratch or even swapping out your existing monitoring tool. Used by engineering teams worldwide at companies like Replit, Disney+ Hotsar, Clevertap, Probo, Quickwork, Axio, and more.

In this video, I’ll provide an overview of the OpenTelemetry Collector’s configuration file (config.yaml) with examples from the Splunk distribution. I will briefly explain the components of the Splunk OTel Collector, and walk you through a sample generic configuration of the OTel Collector. We’ll then use the Splunk Observability Cloud interface to construct the commands needed to install the Splunk OTel Collector on a specific host. This installation will copy a default Splunk OTel Collector configuration onto the host, and we’ll review the Splunk specific components of this configuration.

Is the price of cloud observability becoming a burden for your infrastructure? Many professionals are concerned about the skyrocketing costs associated with proprietary observability tools like Datadog. With major acquisitions, such as Cisco's purchase of Splunk, one has to wonder if affordability is compromised in favor of profit. How essential is observability in today's tech landscape, and what alternatives exist?

Navigating the startup landscape in the cloud era is crucial. But luckily, the Aiven platform empowers startups to succeed in this competitive and dynamic environment.

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"How do I push metrics using Grafana Alloy?" William Dumont from the Grafana Alloy team answers the question by showing you how to collect Prometheus metrics and forward them to Grafana Cloud using Grafana Alloy. This video is just a preview of what you can expect from our Ask the Experts booth at ObservabilityCON and GrafanaCON. The Grafanistas behind our solutions, features, and the LGTM Stack can provide answers to your toughest questions on the spot.

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We are pleased to announce the general availability of Charmed Kubeflow 1.9. Get ready to elevate your ML projects with winning points like broader integrations, enhanced data science workflows, and strengthened enterprise security.

In this webinar, Peter Zaitsev, Founder of Coroot, dives deep into Observability, a crucial approach for building robust, high-performing applications.