Generative AI is everywhere, but how do we monitor and observe it? OpenTelemetry has been a prominent tool and standard for observability, and recently the OTel community has been aiming to expand its scope and cover GenAI workloads with semantic conventions and tools.

In this episode, Horovits is joined by Nir Gazit, creator of the OpenLLMetry project, and member of the OpenTelemetry Generative AI SIG. We discuss new semantic conventions, tracing prompts and model behavior, the OpenLLMetry project’s journey, and what observability even means for modern AI systems.

Nir Gazit is the CEO and co-founder of Traceloop, and brings a wealth of data and AI experience, with previous experience leading AI teams at Google and serving as the Chief Architect at Fiverr.

You can read the recap post: https://medium.com/p/81b9cea6a771/

Show Notes:

00:00 - intro 

04:09 - what is observability for AI

18:07 - AI observability differences from traditional observability

25:22 - OpenLLMetry intro

41:21 - OpenLLMetry latest updates and roadmap

47:00 - OpenTelemetry GenAI Semantic Conventions SIG

56:03 - KubeCon updates: CrossPlane, Knative, Dragonfly, in-toto reached CNCF graduation 

1:00:08 - outro

Resources:

OpenTelemetry Generative AI Observability SIG: https://github.com/open-telemetry/community/blob/1c71595874e5d125ca92ec3b0e948c4325161c8a/projects/llm-semconv.md

https://github.com/traceloop/openllmetry

https://github.com/traceloop/hub

https://github.com/traceloop/opentelemetry-mcp-server

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Dotan Horovits

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Nir Gazit

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LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nirga/

OpenObservability Talks episodes are released monthly, on the last Thursday of each month and are available for listening on your favorite podcast app and on YouTube.

eBPF holds the potential for true automatic instrumentation for observability. OpenTelemetry eBPF Instrumentation (OBI) is a new addition to the OpenTelemetry project, which brings the promise of a multi-language, multi-protocol auto-instrumentation, thanks to a code donation by Grafana Labs. 

Our guest today is Mario Macías, Principal Software Engineer at Grafana Labs and OpenTelemetry eBFP Instrument maintainer. Macías joins Horovits to share about OBI, its origins, capabilities and how it fits into the broader OpenTelemetry project. 

Mario holds a Ph.D. in Computer Architecture and for the last 8 years he's been working in observability at different companies. He also authored books in Spanish language, such as "Programación en Go" or "Introducción a Apache Spark".
 

You can read the recap post: https://medium.com/p/377cb0432bf1

Show Notes:

00:00 - episode intro

02:11 - guest intro

05:15 - Beyla origins

08:45 - OBI for app monitoring

14:46 - no-code multi-language instrumentation 

23:12 - OBI trace support

33:58 - OBI components

43:39 - Beyla project new focus

47:21 - OTel instrumentation SIG

51:34 - collaboration with other OTel components and SIGs 

54:59 - OBI roadmap

59:26 - outro 

Resources:

• OBI on GitHub: https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-ebpf-instrumentation/

• Grafana Beyla donation: https://grafana.com/blog/2025/05/07/opentelemetry-ebpf-instrumentation-beyla-donation/

• eBPF for continuous profiling and the Parca project: https://medium.com/p/8afd5bafd498

• eBPF for tracing and OTel GoLang Auto-instrumentation SIG: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFykWV1mLAI&list=PLd57eY2edRXz4djMETYTm-2p8WGTdoX3D

• eBPF for Kubernetes monitoring and the Pixie project: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYDBj5ctKaw&list=PLd57eY2edRXz4djMETYTm-2p8WGTdoX3D&index=52
  

Dotan Horovits

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Mario Macías

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In this episode we explore how Dapr and KEDA—two CNCF graduated projects—are reshaping cloud-native application development and what that means for observability. From event-driven architectures to autoscaling and service runtime, we discuss how these building blocks fit into modern systems. We discuss major capabilities around resilience, scalability, observability and even agentic AI support.

Our guest for this episode is Yaron Schneider, co-creator of both Dapr and KEDA projects, and co-founder and CTO of Diagrid. He also brings years of leadership at Microsoft on scalable cloud architecture.

You can read the recap posts:

• Part 1 - Dapr: https://medium.com/p/eb2f4013d9a1/

• Part 2 - KEDA: https://medium.com/p/d74f75c0021a/

Show Notes:

00:00 - episode intro

01:19 - guest intro and Dapr & KEDA intro

04.53 - why Microsoft created KEDA

14:43 - why Microsoft decided to open-source KEDA

16:58 - why Microsoft created Dapr

24:52 - observability in Dapr

33:38 - shifting from logs to traces 

37:46 - building a startup around foundation-led open source

46:22 - agentic AI support in Dapr

49:11 - Dapr updates and roadmap

52:15 - KEDA updates and roadmap

53:50 - Dapr at KubeCon NA

55:08 - Jaeger celebrates 10th anniversary

56:13 - OpenTelemetry Collector user survey

56:58 - proposal for a new OTel SIG for resource metadata semantic conventions

1:00:00 - outro 

Resources:

• Dapr: https://dapr.io/

• KEDA: https://keda.sh/ 

• Dapr accepted to graduation, Dec 2024, my LI post: https://www.linkedin.com/embed/feed/update/urn:li:share:7262354292794159105 

• Announcing Dapr AI Agents: https://www.cncf.io/blog/2025/03/12/announcing-dapr-ai-agents/ 

• Jaeger 10th anniversary: https://medium.com/jaegertracing/jaeger-at-10-forged-in-community-reborn-in-opentelemetry-621d4eabdeda

• Jaeger v2 and alignment with OpenTelemetry: https://medium.com/p/be612dbee774

• Proposal for a new OpenTelemetry SIG: Service and Deployment Semantic Conventions: https://github.com/open-telemetry/community/pull/2837/ 

• OTel Collector Follow-up Survey: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfbpqBcCVfmRj_Rk_Sd6zaBGpfzGSBvSZ6CdVn6PPBbbmPIOw/viewform 

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Dotan Horovits

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Yaron Schneider

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LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/yaron-schneider-2130b7a3/ 

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The ClickHouse open source project has gained interest in the observability community, thanks to its outstanding performance benchmarks. Now ClickHouse is doubling down on observability with the release of ClickStack, a new open source observability stack that bundles in ClickHouse, OpenTelemetry and  HyperDX frontend. 

I invited Mike Shi, the co-founder of HyperDX and co-creator of ClickStack, to tell us all about this new project. Mike is Head of Observability at ClickHouse, and brings prior observability experience with Elasticsearch and more.

You can read the recap post: https://medium.com/p/73f129a179a3/

Show Notes:

00:00 episode and guest intro

04:38 taking the open source path as an entrepreneur

10:51 the HyperDX observability user experience 

16:08 challenges in implementing observability directly on ClickHouse

20:03 intro to ClickStack and incorporating OpenTelemetry

32:35 balancing simplicity and flexibility

36:15 SQL vs. Lucene query languages 

39:06 performance, cardinality and the new JSON type

52:14 use cases in production by OpenAI, Anthropic, Tesla and more

55:38 episode outro

Resources:

• HyperDX https://github.com/hyperdxio/hyperdx 

• ClickStack https://clickhouse.com/docs/use-cases/observability/clickstack 

• Shopify’s Journey to Planet-Scale Observability: https://medium.com/p/9c0b299a04dd

• ClickHouse: Breaking the Speed Limit for Observability and Analytics https://medium.com/p/2004160b2f5e 

• New JSON data type for ClickHouse: https://clickhouse.com/blog/a-new-powerful-json-data-type-for-clickhouse

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Dotan Horovits

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Mike Shi

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OpenObservability Talks episodes are released monthly, on the last Thursday of each month and are available for listening on your favorite podcast app and on YouTube.

We are overdue for a vendor neutral industry wide event dedicated to our favorite topic - open observability.

Last month (June 2025) the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) ran the first-ever Open Observability Summit, bringing together the world’s best experts in the field in a day packed with talks from project maintainers, end users and practitioners.

We’re proud partners of the event, and are here to bring you the highlights from this industry-shaping event.

This special episode has two parts, one recorded onsite before the event, covering conference goals, and insights from the talk submissions, and the other recorded after the event, covering the highlights of the events and the talks. 

The guests for is episode are two observability veterans: Alok Bhide, member of the event’s content committee and head of product innovation at Chronosphere; and Henrik Rexed, developer advocate at Dynatrace, CNCF Ambassador, and host of Is It Observable podcast.

Catch up on everything you need to know from the first-ever Open Observability Summit.

You can read the recap post: https://medium.com/p/d42c8826d6a5/

Show Notes:

00:00 - intro

02:52 - Part 1 pre-event

03:40 - guest intro Alok Bhide

04:49 - a new community event for open observability

06:58 - talk submission highlights from the CFP content reviewer

12:34 - a view of the open observability stack and its use 

16:42 - Fluent Bit alignment with OpenTelemetry

20:08 - AI in observability

25:34 - Part 2 talk highlights

26:22 - Fluent Bit vs. OpenTelemetry Collector benchmark analysis

37:51 - OpenSearch 3.1 release

40:47 - eBay’s observability talk

47:00 - Kotlin SDK for OTel talk for Android developers

51:45 - Otel Collector fine-tuning talk

53:52 - Broadcom OTel use case from mobile to mainframe

56:43 - Spotify migration from in-house TSDB to VictoriaMetrics and Prometheus

58:20 - OTel Collector replacement in Rust with the Rotel project

1:00:58 - Noisy neighbors network observability

1:03:04 - rising awareness of OTel semantic conventions 

1:05:50 - outro 

Resources:

• Open Observability Summit + OTel Community Day: https://events.linuxfoundation.org/open-observability-summit-otel-community-day/

• eBay innovation with open source observability: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ycNhzRVSbU&list=PLj6h78yzYM2NFT2PGItX2idBf7v8fHcy7&index=35 

• More on eBay’s journey to planet-scale observability: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UsU3nRglhA&list=PLd57eY2edRXz4djMETYTm-2p8WGTdoX3D 

• Spotify talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87koDlpKDR4&list=PLj6h78yzYM2NFT2PGItX2idBf7v8fHcy7

• Kotlin SDK for OTel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=di5nhYvUh6w&list=PLj6h78yzYM2NFT2PGItX2idBf7v8fHcy7

• More on mobile observability with OTel: https://medium.com/p/2eb847c41941 

• OpenTelemtry Collector vs. Fluent Bit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZho5W9L_Z8&list=PLj6h78yzYM2NFT2PGItX2idBf7v8fHcy7&index=8

• Telemetry Pipelines: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0d1g5ZWAc1Y&list=PLj6h78yzYM2NFT2PGItX2idBf7v8fHcy7&index=30 

• OTel Collector in Rust with Rotel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xeQnP8Ct7qY&list=PLj6h78yzYM2NFT2PGItX2idBf7v8fHcy7&index=16 

• Rotel project repo: https://github.com/streamfold/rotel  

• Noisy neighbor detection: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVqiOtXTEFA 

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Dotan Horovits

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Henrik Rexed

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YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@isitobservable 

Alok Bhide

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LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/albhide/

OpenSearch has become a cornerstone of open source search and observability, empowering developers and organizations to derive meaningful insights from unstructured data at scale.

The past year marks a significant milestone in its journey, with OpenSearch officially joining The Linux Foundation, further cementing its position in the open source ecosystem.

Now, after two years of 2.x, the next major release is here, and it brings significant advancements in performance, data management, vector database functionality, and much more. In this episode we dive into the 3.0 release, across lexical, semantic, and hybrid search, vector database improvements, observability capabilities, performance boosts, and much more. We also look at the community and ecosystem, the recent move of the project under The Linux Foundation, and some of the interesting use cases out there.  

Our guests for this episode are Carl Meadows, Chair of the Governing Board of the OpenSearch Software Foundation, and Pallavi Priyadarshini, member of the Technical Steering Committee and the OpenSearch 3.0 release manager.

The episode was live-streamed on 9 June 2025 and the video is available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4T-ksTAmxg

You can read the recap post: https://medium.com/p/fb526e0d44e5/

Show Notes:

00:00 - intro

03:30 - OpenSearch joins the Linux Foundation

06:05 - the community and Technical Steering Committee

11:39 - why now 3.0?

13:53 - performance improvements

17:55 - vector database and MCP for agentic AI support

23:20 - what's new with observability

30:14 - Discover UI view and anomaly detection

33:55 - the vision for OpenSearch and differentiation

37:33 - Data Prepper ingestion component

44:28 - gRPC and Protobuf support

49:47 - 3.1 release and the 3.x line

55:25 - where to follow and join the community

1:03:12 - outro

Resources:

• OpenSearch 3.0 announcement blog: https://opensearch.org/blog/unveiling-opensearch-3-0/

• OpenSearch public roadmap: https://github.com/orgs/opensearch-project/projects/220 

• OpenSearchCon and other events: https://opensearch.org/events/

• New Observability Special Interest Group: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:share:7336739972877537281/

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Dotan Horovits

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Carl Meadows

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LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/carlfmeadows/

Pallavi Priyadarshini

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OpenObservability Talks episodes are released monthly, on the last Thursday of each month and are available for listening on your favorite podcast app and on YouTube.

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The ClickHouse® project is a rising star in observability and analytics, challenging performance conventions with its breakneck speed. This open source OLAP column store, originally developed at Yandex to power their web analytics platform at massive scale, has quickly evolved into one of the hottest open source observability data stores around. Its published performance benchmarks have been the topic of conversation, outperforming many legacy databases and setting a new bar for fast queries over large volumes of data.

Our guest for this episode is Robert Hodges, CEO of Altinity — the second largest contributor to the ClickHouse project. With over 30 years of experience in databases, Robert brings deep insights into how ClickHouse is challenging legacy databases at scale. We’ll also explore Altinity’s just-launched groundbreaking open source project—Project Antalya—which extends ClickHouse with Apache Iceberg shared storage, unlocking dramatic improvements in both performance and cost efficiency. Think 90% reductions in storage costs and 10 to 100x faster queries, all without requiring any changes to your existing applications.

The episode was live-streamed on 20 May 2025 and the video is available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VeyTL2JlWp0

You can read the recap post: https://medium.com/p/2004160b2f5e/

OpenObservability Talks episodes are released monthly, on the last Thursday of each month and are available for listening on your favorite podcast app and on YouTube.

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Show Notes:

00:00 - Intro

01:38 - ClickHouse elevator pitch

02:46 - guest intro

04:48 - ClickHouse under the hood

08:15 - SQL and the database evolution path 

11:20 - the return of SQL

16:13 - design for speed 

17:14 - use cases for ClickHouse

19:18 - ClickHouse ecosystem

22:22 - ClickHouse on Kubernetes 

31:45 - know how ClickHouse works inside to get the most out of it 

38:59 - ClickHouse for Observability

46:58 - Project Antalya

55:03 - Kubernetes 1.33 release

55:32 - OpenSearch 3.0 release

56:01 - New Permissive License for ML Models Announced by the Linux Foundation

57:08 - Outro

Resources:

• ClickHouse on GitHub: https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse 

• Shopify’s Journey to Planet-Scale Observability: https://medium.com/p/9c0b299a04dd

• Project Antalya: https://altinity.com/blog/getting-started-with-altinitys-project-antalya 

• https://cmtops.dev/posts/building-observability-with-clickhouse/ 

• Kubernetes 1.33 release highlights: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7321054742174924800/ 

• New Permissive License for Machine Learning Models Announced by the Linux Foundation: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:share:7331046183244611584  

• Opensearch 3.0 major release: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/horovits_opensearch-activity-7325834736008880128-kCqr

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Dotan Horovits

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Robert Hodges

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KubeCon Europe 2025 in London has wrapped up, and we’re bringing you all the highlights, trends, and behind-the-scenes insights straight from the show floor!

In this special recap episode, I’m joined by two CNCF Ambassadors and community powerhouses: Kasper Borg Nissen, the Co-Chair of this KubeCon as well as of the KubeCon 2024 editions, and a Developer Relations Engineer at Dash0; and William Rizzo, Consulting Architect at Mirantis and Linkerd Ambassador.

Together, we unpack the major themes from the event—from platform engineering and internal developer platforms, to open source observability, and where Kubernetes is headed next. We also chat about the vibe of the community, emerging projects to watch, and important trends in European tech sphere.

Whether you missed the conference or want to catch up on important updates you might have missed, this episode gives you a curated take straight from the experts who know the cloud-native space inside out.

The episode was live-streamed on 22 April 2025 and the video is available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JyxJOmOEBvQ

You can read the recap post: https://medium.com/p/740258a5fa46

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Show Notes:

00:00 - intro

03:28 - KubeCon impressions

09:59 - Backstage turns 5

18:56 - CNCF turns 10 and CNCF annual survey

27:22 - Sovereign cloud in Europe and the NeoNephos initiative

33:55 - CI/CD use in production increases

36:52 - OpenInfra joins the Linux Foundation

40:16 - Cloud native local communities, DEI and the BIPOC initiative 

51:11 - Observability query standardization SIG updates

59:36 - outro

Resources:

CNCF 2024 Annual Survey https://www.cncf.io/reports/cncf-annual-survey-2024/

NeoNephos initiative for sovereign EU cloud: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:share:7313115943075766273/

OpenInfra Foundation and OpenStack join The Linux Foundation: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:share:7307839934072066048/

Backstage turns 5: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7318163557206966272/

Kubernetes 1.33 release: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7321054742174924800/

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Dotan Horovits

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Kasper Borg Nissen

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William Rizzo

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Observability into mobile native applications presents unique challenges, from capturing real user interactions to dealing with network constraints and battery efficiency. In this episode of OpenObservability Talks, we explore the special characteristics of client-side telemetry, and how OpenTelemetry helps generate mobile client telemetry for real user monitoring (RUM), enabling deeper insights into performance and user experience. 

We host Hanson Ho, Android architect at Embrace and an approver on the OpenTelemetry Android SDK. Hanson brings a wealth of experience from Twitter, Salesforce and SAP. He will share his expertise on instrumenting mobile apps, the evolution of OpenTelemetry for Android, and best practices for collecting and analyzing mobile telemetry. Tune in to learn how to bring OpenTelemetry-powered observability to your mobile applications!

The episode was live-streamed on 17 March 2025 and the video is available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIid85wO8gc

OpenObservability Talks episodes are released monthly, on the last Thursday of each month and are available for listening on your favorite podcast app and on YouTube.

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Show Notes:

00:00 - Intro

01:42 - the unique characteristics of mobile env

03:39 - Android presents additional challenges

05:41 - observability in everyday frontend dev

12:01 - observability for business metrics in mobile apps

18:28 - collecting telemetry in constrained mobile devices

23:03 - Twitter scale observability into mobile apps

29:01 - how mobile monitoring used to work before OpenTelemetry

33:37 - OpenTelemetry expansion from server-side into client-side telemetry

44:09 - OpenTelemetry Android SDK working group

50:53 - Embrace’s journey into OpenTelemetry

1:00:04 - Outro

Resources:

• OpenTelemetry Android SDK: https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-android

• OpenTelemetry Client SDK and Instrumentation SIG board: https://github.com/orgs/open-telemetry/projects/19/views/1 

• Adding client-side support to OpenTelemetry: https://medium.com/p/a389144f3812#2fcf  

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Dotan Horovits

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Hanson Ho

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Shopify operates at massive scale, running thousands of services and processing billions of events per second. To tackle the challenges of observability at this scale, they built Observe—an in-house observability stack that makes use of open-source tools and specifications. In fact, they replaced an older vendors-based system, in an awe-inspiring migration project. But why build their own stack? Which open source tools did they use? How did they shape the user experience to their needs?

Joining us to unpack Shopify’s journey is Elijah McPherson, an engineering leader with deep expertise in observability and distributed systems. Elijah led the complete rebuild of Shopify’s observability stack and now also oversees jobs, caching, search, and ClickHouse infrastructure. Tune in to hear firsthand insights from one of the most innovative purpose-built observability implementations in production today!

The episode was live-streamed on 11 February 2025 and the video is available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBfTjlXKJW0

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Show Notes:

00:46 - Episode and guest intro

03:43 - Why rebuild the observability stack in house

05:47 - Cost and vendor lock-in

07:09 - Tailoring observability for the organizational processes

10:27 - How to build a team to build in-house observability

13:37 - The importance of product sense in internal platforms

18:05 - The functionality of Shopify’s observability platform

25:15 - The Open Source stack used at Shopify observability

29:50 - Extending open source Grafana to Shopify’s needs

36:23 - Adopting open standards

42:26 - observability into business health

45:16 - how to run a migration project for a live production platform

53:15 - final tips and best practices

56:41 - which organizations should develop in-house observability

Resources:

• Episode: Scaling Platform Engineering: Shopify’s Blueprint: https://medium.com/p/f18e97140681 

• Shopify Observe - lectures: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/elijahmcpherson_observe-activity-7258195493657223168-mOGS/ 

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