2023 has been an amazing year for #observability with an increase the number of cloud native observability tools gaining a critical mass of deployments. There a few trends that have me extremely excited that I expect to see grow in the next 12 months I plan to write about over the next couple of weeks.:
- #eBPF observability and security using projects like Cilium by Isovalent and Sysdig. Especially in the #Kubernetes space. (You’ve probably seen me coming up to speed on Cilium rapidly in the last few weeks).
- #OpenTelemetry or #OTEL for convergence of log and trace data. For many developers stdout and print is a starting point until they start to use logging libraries like Log4J and Log4Net. But even with these libraries, it is just text with little to no context (think overlapping worker threads). Traces provide a context and attributes that make troubleshooting much easier. I see logging and tracing converging.
- Reduced complexity to make observability more consumable. Terms like eBPF, Kprobes, tracepoints and CPU Steal make it difficult to consume observability tools.
- Serverless compute and functions like Azure Functions, AWS Lambda, and GCP Serverless for batch and on-demand workloads.
Articles worth reading
A collection of my and other peoples articles worth reading on the topic of observability.
Until next time. Thanks for reading!
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