Observe Ability

A Journey in Observability

  • Driving End User Experience: Easy Observability At The Point Of Consumption!

    End User Experience is an area of constant pain for for IT leaders running complex networks made up of a combination of Enterprise Software including Fat clients, SaaS, and internally hosted web applications. I’ve often been engaged by LOB (Line Of Business) leaders to work with IT departments to identify the root cause of End…

  • Observability Round Up 30th October 2023

    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…

  • Optimising Visibility: The Convergence of Traces and Logs

    Introduction Everyone that has ever written any code will have written some permutation of “Hello World”. The feeling of unstoppable power as you can now successfully, write, compile, and execute your own code. At least this is how I felt some 25 years ago. This is before the weight of pointer arithmetic, boolean algebra, and…

  • Unveiling the Power of OpenTelemetry: An Exploration with SigNoz for Superior Observability

    In the second of this series exploring OpenTelemetry, we take a look at SigNoz as an OpenTelemetry Observability solution. Having worked for an Observability vendor that had an APM offering, I found the interface intuitive and easy to work through. In this article I’m going to explore the Traces capability within SigNoz and plan to…

  • Practical OpenTelemetry Review

    OpenTelemetry is something I’ve been watching for a while now and reviewing Practical OpenTelemetry was the perfect excuse to dive deeper. In my lab I’ve been running a project called SigNoz for which I’m writing up a companion article to this one to show some practical examples. When I first looked into OpenTelemetry about 4…

  • Interview: Getting Closer to Customers

    This week I was fortunate enough to interview a good friend of mine Saurabh Jain. Saurabh has spent the last 6 years at Riverbed Technology located in Bengaluru and New Delhi as a Tech Evangelist in SD-WAN and Observability. While I’d worked with Saurabh remotely for some time, I finally got to meet him in…

  • The CrUX Of Web Performance

    The world of web performance is tougher than most internal applications because you are dealing with third parties that you don’t. The Internet, browsers (with a thousand tabs open), endpoints (with agents running), and poor connectivity in the form of cellular/wireless/consumer grade connections. This means that we need to be able to understand and manage…

  • Observability Round Up 14th October 2023

    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.:…

  • XDP: Your eBPF Packet Processing Introduction!

    I want to let you in on why I think XDP (eXpress Data Path) is so awesome and will change the game when it comes to security, routing, and application delivery.

  • SaaS to on-prem and back again! Interview With a Professional Services Director

    Earlier this week I meet with a good friend of mine (who we’ll call Martin) who works as a Director of Professional Services. Martin works at a global enterprise software company. We’d been discussing a recent article I wrote on Cloud Migrations in Reverse and we discussed why he had seen some of his customers…