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Deep Dives
Explore our deep-dive blogs for an in-depth look at various observability and reliability topics! We break down complex ideas and share valuable insights to help you understand observability and related concepts better.
Think Data Warehouse, NOT Database.
The software monitoring world is broken because of a TSDB. We deserve a TSDW
Aniket Rao
The most important aspect of software monitoring
Ths single most important thing to get better at your software monitoring journey
Aniket Rao
What needs to change in software monitoring?
A wishlist of things that need to change in the world of software monitoring
Aniket Rao
How We Cut Monitoring Costs and Deprecated Thanos at Replit
Winning Replit over by taming High Cardinality data and deprecating Thanos
Prathamesh Sonpatki
Back to the Future: The R-C-A of alerting
Dissecting the RCA of Alerting - Reliability, Correlations, Actionability
Aditya Godbole
Launching Alert Studio
Modern monitoring systems depend heavily on ‘Alerting’ to reduce the Mean Time to Detect (MTTD) faulty systems. But, alerting hasn’t evolved to meet the demands of modern architectures. We’re changing that with Alert Studio.
Aditya Godbole
Everything in software monitoring is dead, apparently
Chasing shiny new toys, as always ;)
Aniket Rao
Software Monitoring — Stuck in the 00s
A short history of software monitoring, from the 00s. What has changed? Why are things so arcane?
Piyush Verma
A checklist to choose a monitoring system
A detailed checklist of points you should consider before choosing a monitoring system
Prathamesh Sonpatki
Why your monitoring costs are high
If you want to bring down your monitoring costs, you need to shake up a decision paralysis in engineering
Aniket Rao
The unresolved cost of High Cardinality
Fulfill all your food delivery orders this December 31st by taming High Cardinality data with Levitate 😉
Prathamesh Sonpatki
Why you need a Time Series Data Warehouse
What is a Time Series Data Warehouse? How does it help in your monitoring journey? How does it differ from a Time Series Database? That and more
Rishi Agrawal
Building Logs to Metrics pipelines with Vector
How to build a pipeline to convert logs to metrics and ship them to long term Prometheus storage like Levitate.
Aniket Rao
This arctic winter — time to repay your tech debt
We're in a peak tech winter. What should engineering teams focus on when product velocity dwindles?
Ajey Gore
A case for Observability outside engineering teams
Observability is being built by engineers for engineers. In reality, o11y is for all.
Aniket Rao
Understanding the Rasmussen model for failures
What does the Rasmussen model teach us about Site Reliability Engineering?
Nishant Modak
1979, a nuclear accident and SRE
Deep diving into the 'Normal accident' theory by Charles Perrow, and what it means for SREs
Aniket Rao
OpenTelemetry for dummies: ELI5
What is OpenTelemetry? Why is it important? Do SREs need to adopt OTel? An Explain It Like I'm 5.
Mohan Dutt Parashar
What Site Reliability Engineering Needs: A Swarm of Bees
If all companies are software companies, all companies need better Observability to understand how performative their software is
Aniket Rao
Take back control of your Monitoring
Take back control of your Monitoring with Levitate - a managed time series data warehouse
Nishant Modak
Observability is a practice, not a job
Engineering organizations that ship fast have Observability as part of their core DNA.
Aniket Rao
High Cardinality for Dummies: ELI5
High Cardinality woes are far & frequent in today's modern cloud-native environment. What does it mean, & why is it such a pressing problem?
Mohan Dutt Parashar
Who should define Reliability — Engineering, or Product?
Whoever owns Reliability should define its parameters. But who owns the Reliability of a Product? Engineering? Product Management? Or the Customer success team?
Piyush Verma
What do self-driving cars tell us about Site Reliability Engineering?
From Robocars to Reliability — SRE with self-driving cars; mapping out where the Observability space is in conjunction with self-driving cars
Mohan Dutt Parashar
Observability—OSS vs Paid vs Managed OSS
The Reliability industry needs a managed, non-vendor lock-in answer to spiraling costs, high cardinality and the toil of managing a tsdb
Satyajeet Jadhav
High Cardinality? No Problem! Stream Aggregation FTW
Managing high cardinality in time series data is tough but crucial. Learn how Levitate’s streaming aggregations can help tackle it efficiently.
Piyush Verma
The neglected tech arctic winter — Internal SaaS expenses
The current tech winter reveals a hard truth: spending on internal tools for tech infrastructure is bloated—and this isn't just a passing cycle.
Nishant Modak
Understanding “Cricket Scale”
How does a DevOps/Site Reliability Engineer plan for "Cricket scale"? How do you warm systems' about to witness 30+ million concurrent users?
Aniket Rao
Reliability Engineering for Dummies: ELI5
Explaining Reliability Engineering to a 5-year-old.
Mohan Dutt Parashar
When should I start thinking of observability?
How does one scale metrics maturity in a cloud-native world — A guide on observability tooling as your engineering org scales.
Piyush Verma
The importance of structured communication in the world of SRE
How you communicate helps build your 9s. In the world of Site Reliability Engineering, this is crucial. How do you do it?
Saurabh Hirani
The difference between DevOps, SRE, and Platform Engineering
In reliability engineering, three concepts keep getting talked about - DevOps, SRE and Platform Engineering. How do they differ?
Prathamesh Sonpatki
How to improve Prometheus remote write performance at scale
Deep dive into how to improve the performance of Prometheus Remote Write at Scale based on real-life experiences
Saurabh Hirani
India vs Pakistan: SRE and the Shannon Limit
How does one ‘detect change’ in a complex infrastructure, so you don’t lose out on critical revenues — A short SRE story
Satyajeet Jadhav
Why MTTR should be a ‘business’ metric
A key challenge is aligning engineering health metrics with business goals. How can business measure engineering, and engineering show its value?
Sidu Ponnappa
Observability - That Last 9
TL;DR: A stitch in time, saves 9. A discussion on the key blocks of observability.
Akash Saxena
How we won Dukaan over
5 meetings. 1 month. Subhash and his team’s velocity on decision-making, moving fast, and radical candor, are a breath of fresh air in the Indian startup ecosystem.
Aniket Rao
Getting the big picture with Log Analysis
How to get the most out of your logs!
Jayesh Bapu Ahire
Microservices - Tracking Dependencies
Quick primer into microservices architecture and the importance of tracking dependencies
Akshay Chugh, Jayesh Bapu Ahire
Infrastructure-As-Code-As-Software
Explore how Infrastructure-as-Code-as-Software combines coding practices with automation to streamline infrastructure management and enhance scalability.
Piyush Verma