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sumologic

The Root Cause Agent: Bring an agentic approach to observability

Oct 13, 2026 By Michelle Beastall In Sumo Logic
For years, engineering teams have faced the same challenge during incidents: the systems generating alerts are becoming more complex, but the investigation that follows is still largely manual. Monitors are good at telling us that something is wrong. The harder question is why. When an alert fires, an engineer still has to work out where to look, which signals matter, what hypothesis to test, and how the evidence across logs and metrics fits together.
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The Business Side of Observability: Ramazan Karadavut on Customer Value and SolarWinds

Oct 13, 2026 By solarwindsinc In SolarWinds
In this episode of SolarWinds World Tour Conversations, we sit down with Ramazan Karadavut, Founder & Senior Architect at Consolit, to discuss his 20-year journey with SolarWinds and the power of end-to-end IT management. We explore real-world enterprise use cases, including monitoring large-scale banking networks across 10,000+ branches, and thousands of ATMs. We will also explore why moving beyond basic alerting into inventory management, change management, and investment reporting is essential for complex environments.
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Aiven

Observability is a data problem

Oct 10, 2026 By Tony Piazza | In Aiven
TL;DR Metrics, logs, and traces each have a different shape, so each needs a different backend. Aiven for Metrics handles metrics and alerting, Aiven for OpenSearch handles keyword search across logs, and Aiven for ClickHouse handles analysis of high-volume, high-cardinality events. All three are upstream open source engines on the same Aiven platform, so you can start with one and add the others as your needs change.
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We Stuck Minecraft on a Kubernetes Cluster and Observed it with Open Source

Oct 8, 2026 By Coroot In Coroot
Why did we do this? Not important: jump to 1:31 to see the Pis. TL;DR: We stuck Minecraft on kubernetes running on 4 Raspberry Pis in a 3D-Printed case, and monitored it with open source observability. Huge thanks to Percona DBA Ivan Zaitsev for putting the demo together for Percona University, Montevideo. Coroot automatically collects and visualizes all your telemetry data: logs, metrics, traces, profiles, and a complete map of your services. With the complete context of eBPF, it can diagnose the exact cause of an incident in seconds, and show you the exact commands to fix it.
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honeycomb

OpenTelemetry Collector Configuration for LLM Observability

Oct 7, 2026 By Mike Goldsmith In Honeycomb
Your LLM application emits telemetry unlike anything else in your stack. Model calls, tool invocations, retrieval steps, and token usage arrive as spans whose attributes carry entire prompts and completions. That data is bulky, it's full of user content you may not be allowed to export, and depending on which instrumentation each service uses, the same fact can arrive under different attribute names.
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coroot

Coroot at KCD Argentina

Oct 7, 2026 By Alexander Lamberton In Coroot
Kubernetes Community Days (KCD) Argentina brought together the vibrant technology communities of Buenos Aires for in-depth technical talks, SRE workshops, and an amazing opportunity to connect with fellow experts in cloud technology. Coroot had a great time participating, and we extend our thanks to all the SREs, DBAs, and DevOps engineers who stopped by the booth to discuss their observability experience.
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interlink

Beyond Traditional Observability: Turning Technical Insight into Operational Intelligence

Oct 6, 2026 By david.arrowsmith In Interlink
Observability has become a central part of modern IT operations and for good reason. Metrics, logs and traces give technical teams detailed evidence about how applications, infrastructure and services are behaving. Such evidence helps them investigate performance degradation, identify abnormal behavior and understand what changed around the time an issue occurred.
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digitate

Observability vs Monitoring: Why Does IT Still Find Out After the Business Does?

Oct 6, 2026 By Digitate In Digitate
✓ operational truth IT finds out late because traditional monitoring is built to detect what goes wrong, not what has quietly stopped happening. Closing that gap requires observability that validates business journeys end to end, detects missing activity, checks its own coverage, and predicts degradation before a threshold is ever crossed.
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honeycomb

How Honeycomb Private Cloud Drinks From the Fire Hose

Oct 5, 2026 By Fred Hebert In Honeycomb
Back in July, I wrote about how the Tenant team (the team behind Honeycomb Private Cloud (HPC)) has embraced the code review bottleneck to focus more of its work. One of the other challenges we have is that we're downstream of almost all the other teams at Honeycomb, meaning that we have to package up everyone's code and services, and how it gets provisioned! This is something impossible to handle through code review since there are so many engineers on other teams, and so few of us.
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