Platform engineering is the discipline of designing and building toolchains and workflows that enable self-service capabilities for software engineering organizations in the cloud-native era.

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hey guys  :wave:
would love your feedback on <http://groundcover.com|groundcover.com> (K8s APM with eBPF)
we have a cool free-tier

Anyone know good alternatives to something like `dogshellwrap` ?
I like it a lot tbh, but fear with vendor lock-in as principle.

I noticed there are few wrappers written for `textfile` with Prometheus and available here: <https://github.com/prometheus-community/node-exporter-textfile-collector-scripts>

Interested to know any other alternatives from the community. :eyes:
Context: monitoring one off shell commands and cronjobs.

Hi all,
       Would love to know what tools/products people use for observability? SaaS products like Datadog, New Relic, or Open source tools such as, Prometheus, OpenSearch, etc or home grown tools?

I wrote this a few days ago. Hope it can help. :raised_hands:
<https://tracetest.io/blog/top-8-open-source-observability-testing-tools>

I’ve used Datadog and NewRelic extensively, and AWS CloudWatch intermittently. In my completely subjective opinion:
• Datadog is a 2023 Land Rover (luxury for a premium)
• NewRelic is a 1995 Toyota Corolla (usually gets you from point A to point B, at a discount; some point Bs not supported)
• AWS CloudWatcch is a 2015 Prius (practical and lightweight if you’re already in AWS, few bells+whistles)

There are many observability tools but they all index and send your data to their hot storage for analysis, leading to
• High cost of ownership
• Gaps in visibility/coverage into production workloads
• Inability to ingest all data
• High latency, poor scaling &amp; performance, reactive\manual alerting
<https://coralogix.com/| Coralogix> is the only open-telemetry observability platform (Logs, Metrics, Traces, Security) that analyzes your data in-stream without relying on storage or indexing for analysis.

This next-gen approach to observability is allowing engineering leaders to
• Gain full-stack coverage
• Eliminate the inability to ingest all data
• Store their data in their own S3 bucket VS vendor hot storage (=unlimited retention + lower costs on the market)
• Leverage the pro-active approach of decoupling real-time analytics from storage
• Reduce observability spend by 70% annually
In addition, everything in Coralogix is open-source friendly with no vendor lock-in.
For example: Query language is Lucene\PromQL\SQL, Visualisation are in OpenSearch\Grafana and so on (:

:inbox_tray: Feel free to hit me up if you’re interested in learning more

Here’s a nice read about the subject: <https://medium.com/avmconsulting-blog/why-you-should-consider-using-a-monitoring-platform-like-datadog-54e069875bd2>

Hi all. I am looking for a way to send alerts over email to our clients who have signed up for our monitoring tool. With increase in client base and the usage of our tool, the number of these alerts generated per minute are increasing. I am looking for a sustainable way to keep sending these emails for these use cases without worrying about being rate limited by SES or Gmail (the sender is a gmail workspace account). Any leads on how to handle this scalably for increasing traffic? I am probably going to hit this limit in the next 3 months, so looking to identify ways to take care of it.

Hi all, I’d love to organize like a virtual event around observability and we share different point of views. Who’s in? :mega:

For those IN - could you please send me a DM so I can start organizing this?

<https://thenewstack.io/devops-as-a-graph-for-real-time-troubleshooting/?fbclid=IwAR3t5t8Ur6tN8oZPfaRfy0lc6dmXbf5wZEG47zF5M442r01Ne8CSRKtwoIE>

Those attending SRECon23, please join at BoF session - <https://www.linkedin.com/events/srecon-observabilitychallenges-7043703985337221120/>

From the Signadot blog: *<https://www.signadot.com/blog/testing-kafka-based-asynchronous-workflows-using-opentelemetry|Testing Kafka-based Asynchronous Workflows Using OpenTelemetry>*

We recently had a webinar with OpenTelemetry and here’s more information: <https://docs.datadoghq.com/opentelemetry/>