Lessons learned from the relicensing of Terraform, Elasticsearch, Redis and more — Terrified of Terraform relicensing? It’s not the worst that could happen. Just imagine your beloved open source database, which lies at the heart of your system, being relicensed one day. This happened in the few years with MongoDB, Elasticsearch, Redis and other vendor-owned open source. Yes, an open source project…

One of the most captivating discussions I had at KubeCon Europe 2023 in Amsterdam was about standardization of a query language for observability. This query language standard aims to provide a unified way of querying observability data across logs, metrics, traces, and other relevant signals. The conversation shed light on…

Prometheus has been for a long time the go-to way for monitoring Kubernetes and cloud-native systems. Prometheus provides a full stack, including the metric scraping as well as the backend, including a time-series database for storing the metrics, a UI, AlertManager and more. Then came OpenTelemetry, which offers a unified…

TL;DR Key updates: Query Language Standard for Observability: new CNCF working group led by eBay, Netflix Standardizing the Prometheus Remote-Write Protocol Sunsetting OpenCensus in Favor of OpenTelemetry Elastic Common Schema merge with OpenTelemetry Logs Specification OpenTelemetry Logs Bridge Specification merged, progress to stabilize Logs API/SDK OpenTelemetry Protocol (OTLP) reaches 1.0 Today’s IT systems…

*Posted on the CNCF blog, June 2023. The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), recently organized its second-ever KubeDay worldwide, which was held in Israel. Taking place in Tel Aviv in June 2023, this event brought together international and local experts, developers, and practitioners to deliver a quality educational experience for…

It’s anniversary time, concluding the third year of OpenObservability Talks. And what a year it was. Last year we ran the show partially under the pandemic conditions, and this year we got back to meeting in person and to conferences. We even had a special episode live from the KubeCon…

KubeCon Europe 2023 took place in Amsterdam this April, with many exciting updates and discussions around projects from the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). That’s why I was thrilled to host Chris Aniszczyk, the CTO of the CNCF on the March 2023 episode of OpenObservability Talks, ahead of KubeCon. We…

This post was published on CNCF blog. After over 30 community meetups of CNCF’s Israeli chapter in the past years, it’s time we had a full-day event for the community! Welcome Israel’s first Kubernetes Community Days (KCD), coming 23–03–23 (an auspicious date 🙂). Here’s a bit on the story that…

Driving observability in the company in a measured and pragmatic way — This article was originally published at The New Stack. In a popular episode of OpenObservability Talks podcast, host Dotan Horovits, Logz.io’s principal technology evangelist, was joined by guest Jujhar Singh, at the time global DevSecOps practice lead at The Economist and currently a lead DevOps and infrastructure consultant at Thoughtworks…