Posts by Dotan Horovits

Dotan lives at the intersection of technology, product and innovation. With over 20 years in the hi-tech industry as a software developer, a solutions architect and a product manager, he brings a wealth of knowledge in cloud computing, big data solutions, DevOps practices and more. Dotan is an avid advocate of open source software, open standards and communities. As a developer advocate at Logz.io, Dotan evangelizes on Observability in IT systems using popular open source projects and standards such as ELK stack, Grafana, Jaeger and OpenTelemetry.

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Charting New Territory: OpenTelemetry Embraces Profiling

The topic of continuous profiling has been an ongoing discussion in the observability world for some time....

Posts by Dotan Horovits

Charting New Territory: OpenTelemetry Embraces Profiling

Decoding .NET8: Unveiling Cloud-Native Observability

Beyond Logs, Metrics and Traces

Scaling Platform Engineering: Shopify’s Blueprint

Why Your Logging Data and Bills Get Out of Hand

How to Run OpenTelemetry Demo with Logz.io

The Complete Guide to Sampling in Distributed Tracing

Kubernetes and Beyond: A Year-End Reflection with Kelsey Hightower

A Guide to Mastering Metadata for Full Observability

Istio Roadmap, Ambient Mesh, and the Service Mesh Landscape: KubeCon 2023 Updates

Recapping KubeCon North America 2023

PromCon Recap: Prometheus Ecosystem Updates

PromCon Recap: Unveiling Perses, the GitOps-Friendly Metrics Visualization Tool

What’s New in OpenTelemetry?

Terraform is No Longer Open Source. Is OpenTofu the Successor?

What’s New with Fluentd & Fluent Bit

Continuous Observability: Shedding Light on CI/CD Pipelines

Streamlining Observability: The Journey Towards Query Language Standardization

Introduction to Collecting Traces with OpenTelemetry

The Rise of Open Standards in Observability: Highlights from KubeCon

OpenObservability Talks Third Year at a Glance

From Spotify to Open Source: The Backstory of Backstage

Live from KubeCon: Insider Insights with CNCF’s Head of Ecosystem

A Fireside Chat with CNCF’s CTO on OpenTelemetry (and More!)

FinOps Observability: Monitoring Kubernetes Cost

Beginner’s Guide to OpenTelemetry

The Complete Guide to the ELK Stack

Is Kubernetes Monitoring Flawed?

Prometheus Roadmap and Latest Updates

Unreadable Metrics: Why You Can’t Find Anything in Your Monitoring Dashboards

Expensive Metrics: Why Your Monitoring Data and Bill Get Out Of Hand

Phantom Metrics: Why Your Monitoring Dashboard May Be Lying to You

Going Beyond Infrastructure Observability: Meta’s Approach

Platform Engineering: DevOps Evolution or a Fancy Re-name?

Cracking Performance Issues in Microservices with Distributed Tracing

Observability Is a Data Analytics Problem

Where Are My App’s Traces? Understanding the Magic of Instrumentation

How to Gain Observability into Your CI/CD Pipeline

Automatically Convert Grafana Dashboards from InfluxQL to PromQL with a New Open Source Tool

Improving DevOps Performance with DORA Metrics

How Observability Can Get Expensive, and How to Fix It

OpenTelemetry Roadmap and Latest Updates

Continuous Profiling: A New Observability Signal

Application Snapshots: A Valuable Observability Signal for Developers

OpenObservability Talks Second Year at a Glance

What Does Observability Mean for Developers?

Fighting Slow and Flaky CI/CD Pipelines Starts with Observability

Auto-Instrumenting NestJS Apps with OpenTelemetry

Slack’s New Logging Storage Engine Challenges Elasticsearch

Slack’s New Metrics Storage Engine Challenges Prometheus

Who Owns Observability In Enterprises?

SRE Revisited: SLO in the age of Microservices

The Cost of Doing the ELK Stack on Your Own

SaaS Observability Done Right

Auto-Instrumenting Node.js Apps with OpenTelemetry

Observability into Your FinOps: Taking Distributed Tracing Beyond Monitoring

Open Source for Better Observability

Instrumentation for C# .NET Apps with OpenTelemetry

Auto-Instrumenting Python Apps with OpenTelemetry

Auto-Instrumenting Ruby Apps with OpenTelemetry

Quick Dictionary to Open<X> Projects in Observability

Observability with Zero Code Instrumentation? Meet eBPF

OpenSearch Is Now Generally Available!

Launching a Podcast in a Global Pandemic: Summarizing First Year of OpenObservability Talks

Instrumenting Java Applications for Tracing with OpenTelemetry

Elastic beats Beats Users with a Breaking Change

OpenSearch: The Open Source Successor of Elasticsearch

Finding the Bug in the Haystack: Correlating Exceptions with Deployments

Is “Vendor-Owned” Open Source an Oxymoron?

From Distributed Tracing to APM: Taking OpenTelemetry & Jaeger Up a Level

Trying Out OpenSearch with Logz.io

Finding the Bug in the Haystack: Hunting Down Exceptions in Production

Logz.io Infrastructure Monitoring: Building Visualizations in Dashboards

Infrastructure Monitoring Tutorial: Getting Started Sending Prometheus Metrics

Multi-Cloud Archive & Restore: Azure Blob Storage and AWS S3 Support

Monitoring Microservices the Right Way

Observability Platform Correlation

Introduction to Instrumentation with OpenTracing and Jaeger

Finding the Bug in the Haystack with Machine Learning: Logz.io Exceptions in Kibana