Thanks for tuning into another edition of Observability Round Up where we take a look at some of the more interesting things happening in the Observability industry. Over the last 2 weeks saw some interesting news of out the Cloud Native Compute Foundation (CNCF) announcing that Cilium has gone from Incubating to Graduated after meeting the requirements and super majority vote of CNCF Technical Oversight Committee.
In the #OTEL / #OpenTelemetry world I had a chance to review tracing and log convergence which I see as the next level of maturity for applications wanting to provide context and information to operators of complex software. Logs give you a point in time reference of something that has happened, but they don’t give you context without the operator or a tool attempting to clumsily infer a sequence of events from the individual datapoints. Check out my article on this topic for more details and some sample code for the techies amongst us.
If your just starting out on your OTEL journey and want to get your head around the possibilities and why every APM vendor is onboarding OTEL check out my review of Practical OpenTelemetry which is a great read on ingesting MELT (Metrics, Events, Logs, and Traces) or check out this article on OTEL Traces with SigNoz.
I’ve launched a new business called Observe Ability to provide Observability Consulting, Instrumentation Plans, and Performance Diagnostics for Applications and networks that aren’t meeting performance requirements. Visibility Gap Analysis to understand gaps and overlap of Observability solutions in customer environments. If you are interested, please reach out to me on linked in or the contact Leigh Finch on my website.
Kinson Ho of VMWare published an excellent article on the VMWare knowledge base about Troubleshooting #TCP Unidirectional Data Transfer Throughput which provides practical examples of how to troubleshoot TCP performance. I’ve spent many hours analysing PCAPs and TCP sequence analysis and can say this article is definitely worth a read. Thanks to Todd Magers for pointing this one out.
BBX has put together a great primer on Wireshark especially when it comes to layout and customising the layout and time display formats. Bonus section on tshark for those of us who do packet pre-processing. Check it out on Medium.
Moving to the front-end of applications I put together a primer on CRuX (Chrome User Experience) data and how it impacts user experience. It is tangental to SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) because search engines optimise search results for good user experiences.
I got to interview Saurabh Jain where we discussed the power of technology and how it can impact peoples lives and why he wanted to get closer to customers with #Observability to solve real world problems.
Over the next 2 weeks I’ll be putting together a primer on more EUEM (End User Experience Management) to showcase the power of optimising for your users. I’ve always encouraged technical specialists to spend some time every year with their end users because it helps build a relationship and a walk a mile in their shoes.
That’s it for now, thanks for reading and have an excellent couple of weeks!
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