Observability Real Talk

Our Project Hail Mary: The Observability Setup Behind an Observability Tool

Today, our internal observability system watches 6 regions, ingesting 21 billion metric points, 14 TB of logs, and 10 TB of traces. The story of how we…

Apr 19 • Elizabeth

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How the Sharks Do Observability

An account on how Netflix and Uber observe their massive systems everyday.

Apr 2 • Elizabeth

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February 2026

AI Isn't Replacing SREs. It's Deskilling Them.

When AI handles 95% of your incident response, do you get worse at handling the 5% that actually matters?

Feb 28 • Elizabeth

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Saving Money with Sampling Strategies Beyond Head and Tail-based Sampling

I decided to go down the rabbit hole to find the strategies that don’t get the spotlight and make this edition about the lesser-known types of sampling.

Feb 17 • Elizabeth

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How to Reduce Telemetry Volume by 40% Smartly (Java)

But with great power comes great responsibility.

Feb 4 • Elizabeth

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January 2026

6 Things I Learned About OpenTelemetry Contribution (That the Docs Won't Tell You)

If you’ve been waiting for a sign to start or restart contributing to OTel, this is it! 💖 ✨

Jan 20 • Elizabeth

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BTS of OpenTelemetry Auto-instrumentation

OpenTelemetry’s auto-instrumentation toolkit boils down to a couple of clever techniques that make all of this possible. Let's discuss them!

Jan 10 • Elizabeth

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December 2025

Reducing OpenTelemetry Bundle Size in Browser Frontend

But here’s the thing, neglecting observability for reducing bundle size isn’t a good trade-off.

Dec 20, 2025 • Elizabeth

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How We Achieved 30% Faster Log Queries by Overcoming ClickHouse's Native JSON Limits

What started as an investigation into filtering inconsistent dot-key notation in JSON logs ended up optimising our query performance by 30%.

Dec 13, 2025 • Piyush

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November 2025

Patterns for Deploying OTel Collector at Scale

As applications grow, the question quickly shifts from what OTel can do to how we can deploy it effectively at scale. In this post, we’ll explore some…

Nov 30, 2025 • Elizabeth

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What is eBPF & What Does it Mean for Observability?

Decoding the buzz behind eBPF!

Nov 22, 2025 • Elizabeth

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100 GitHub Releases. Yet it's day one 😊

Here’s to the next 100. We’re just getting started!

Nov 16, 2025 • Anushka Karmakar

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