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On OpenObservability Talks we discuss harnessing the power of open source to advance observability initiatives for developers, DevOps and SRE practitioners around the world. We live-stream the episodes on Twitch and YouTube Live - tune in to see us live, and chime in with your comments and questions on the live chat. https://www.youtube.com/@openobservabilitytalks You can find us on X (Twitter) @openobserv and BlueSky @openobservability.bsky.social

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June 27, 2026Episode 121 hr 2 min

OpenTelemetry Blueprints Unveiled: Practical OTel Deployments for Kubernetes & Platform Engineering - OpenObservability Talks S6E12

OpenTelemetry (OTel) is now the industry standard for observability — but deploying it successfully at scale is still a major challenge. In this episode of OpenObservability Talks, we dive into the newly launched OpenTelemetry Blueprints initiative: a set of practical reference architectures designed to help Platform Engineering and SRE teams cut through the complexity. We explore the first official blueprints for Kubernetes and traditional infrastructure environments, covering: ✅ How to standardize OTel Collector deployments ✅ Best practices for instrumentation at scale ✅ Building self-service observability platforms ✅ What these blueprints mean for Platform Engineering and SRE teams Whether you're just starting your OpenTelemetry journey or trying to scale it across a large organization, this episode gives you a concrete, actionable framework to move faster and with more confidence. You can read the recap post: https://medium.com/p/67db96d7e512/ 🔔 Subscribe for monthly conversations on open-source observability, OTel, open source and cloud-native monitoring. Show Notes: 00:00 - intro 03:05 - end-user pains with OpenTelemetry adoption 07:49 - enterprise org structure dictates OTel adoption patterns 12:56 - what’s the different between blueprints and reference implementations, and what can you expect of an OTel blueprint 19:46 - how blueprints balance OpenTelemetry’s flexibility with opinionation 23:11 - first blueprint: OpenTelemetry for traditional Environments, virtual machines, bare metal and non-Kubernetes 32:42 - second blueprint: OpenTelemetry for Kubernetes Workloads and managed telemetry 49:08 - third blueprint: Kubernetes monitoring with OpenTelemetry. 56:16 - roadmap for the OpenTelemettry blueprints initiative 1:00:01 - outro Resources: OTel Blueprints: https://opentelemetry.io/docs/guidance/ Blueprints intro blog: https://opentelemetry.io/blog/2026/blueprints-intro/ OpAMP intro and updates: https://horovits.medium.com/operating-opentelemetry-at-scale-with-opamp-737b6af8222b ⁠ Dotan Horovits ============ X (Twitter): @horovits LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/horovits Mastodon: @horovits@fosstodon BlueSky: @horovits.bsky.social Dan Gomez Blanco ================ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielgblanco86/ Mastodon: https://mas.to/@dan_gomezblanco Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/dangb.me Socials: BlueSky: ⁠https://bsky.app/profile/openobservability.bsky.social⁠ X (Twitter): ⁠⁠https://x.com/OpenObserv⁠⁠ LinkedIn: ⁠https://www.linkedin.com/company/openobservability/⁠ YouTube: ⁠ ⁠https://www.youtube.com/@openobservabilitytalks OpenObservability Talks episodes are released monthly, on the last Thursday of each month and are available for listening on your favorite podcast app and on YouTube.

May 29, 2026Episode 1158 min

OpenTelemetry Comes of Age: CNCF Graduation, Profiling and eBPF - OpenObservability Talks S6E11

OpenTelemetry has officially reached CNCF graduation this month, marking a major milestone for one of the most widely adopted open observability projects. In this episode of OpenObservability Talks, we unpack what this graduation really means for the project and for users out there. We also revisit the newest observability signal in OpenTelemetry, Continuous Profiling, which was released in public alpha. We explore where the effort currently stands, the adoption and usage best practices. Finally, we dive into the OpenTelemetry eBPF profiling agent and how it aims to dramatically simplify the adoption of continuous profiling for developers and platform teams. Our guest for this episode is Israel Ogbole, CEO & Co-founder of Zymtrace and member of the OTel Profiling SIG. Prior to founding zymtrace, he served as Principal Product Manager at Elastic, where he led Universal Profiling. He also led the donation of Elastic’s eBPF CPU profiler to OpenTelemetry. Israel also worked at Cisco AppDynamics and at Microsoft, with rich background in observability. You can read the recap post: https://medium.com/p/c66dc2cd7d3c Show Notes: 00:00 - episode and guest intro 04:16 - OpenTelemetry reaches CNCF graduation 15:25 - Continuous profiling reaches public Alpha 34:19 - eBPF profiling agent 57:04 - outro Resources: OpenTelemetry reaches CNCF Graduation: https://opentelemetry.io/blog/2026/otel-graduates/ OpenTelemetry Profiles Enters Public Alpha: https://opentelemetry.io/blog/2026/profiles-alpha/ OTel adds the eBPF profiling agent donated by Elastic: https://opentelemetry.io/blog/2024/elastic-contributes-continuous-profiling-agent/ Unveiling OpenTelemetry eBPF Instrumentation: https://medium.com/p/377cb0432bf1 Continuous Profiling: a new observability signal: https://medium.com/p/8afd5bafd498 OTel Profiling SIG established: https://medium.com/p/4a9b407e48cc eBPF for no-code observability instrumentation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYDBj5ctKaw&list=PLd57eY2edRXz4djMETYTm-2p8WGTdoX3D Socials: BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/openobservability.bsky.social X (Twitter): ⁠https://x.com/OpenObserv⁠ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/openobservability/ YouTube: ⁠https://www.youtube.com/@openobservabilitytalks⁠ Dotan Horovits ============ X (Twitter): @horovits LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/horovits Mastodon: @horovits@fosstodon BlueSky: @horovits.bsky.social Israel Ogbole =========== X (Twitter): https://x.com/israel_ogbole LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/israelo/ OpenObservability Talks episodes are released monthly, on the last Thursday of each month and are available for listening on your favorite podcast app and on YouTube.

April 30, 2026Episode 1057 min

VictoriaMetrics: From Monitoring to Observability - OpenObservability Talks S6E10

VictoriaMetrics is a fascinating open source project for metrics monitoring. In the past couple of years the project has expanded its scope from monitoring to observability, with the addition of VictoriaLogs and VictoriaTraces to the stack. In this episode, Horovits sits for a fireside chat with co-founder and Engineering Manager, Roman Khavronenko, to learn more about it. They discuss the transition, the new projects added to the stack, design considerations, and what’s coming next. Roman is a software engineer with experience in distributed systems, monitoring and high-performance services. Prior to VictoriaMetrics, Roman worked as an engineer at Cloudflare. You can read the recap post: https://medium.com/p/1069cec7892e Resources: VictoriaMetrics on GitHub: https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics VictoriaLogs explainer: https://victoriametrics.com/blog/victorialogs-architecture-basics/ OpenObservability Talks episode with VictoriaMetrics co-founder and CTO Aliaksandr Valialkin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-58C8HFGb8&list=PLPFMHjhoDntve1gm-d5yi0YDBH5VEPaHN&index=37 Socials: BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/openobservability.bsky.social X (Twitter): ⁠https://x.com/OpenObserv⁠ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/openobservability/ YouTube: ⁠https://www.youtube.com/@openobservabilitytalks⁠ Dotan Horovits ============ X (Twitter): https://x.com/horovits LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/horovits/ BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/horovits.bsky.social Mastodon: https://fosstodon.org/@horovits Roman Khavronenko ================== X (Twitter): https://x.com/hagen1778 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/roman-khavronenko-47b51a63/ OpenObservability Talks episodes are released monthly, on the last Thursday of each month and are available for listening on your favorite podcast app and on YouTube.

March 17, 2026Episode 91 hr 3 min

Operating OpenTelemetry at Scale with OpAMP - OpenObservability Talks S6E09

As more organizations move to use OpenTelemetry in production at scale, with multiple Collectors across heterogeneous environments, a new challenge arises: how to remotely manage, configure, and update this agent fleet in a consistent and secure way? This is where Open Agent Management Protocol (OpAMP) comes into the picture: it provides a standardized protocol that lets a central backend automatically configure agents, push updates, monitor their health, and collect status information. In this episode Horovits hosts Andy Keller, OpAMP Maintainer and Principal Engineer at Bindplane, to discuss how OpAMP makes large-scale observability deployments much easier to operate and control. Andy shares the project status, including hot KubeCon update you don’t want to miss. You can read the recap post: https://medium.com/p/737b6af8222b/ Show Notes: 00:00 - intro 02:01 - why OpAMP mission statement 04:29 - types of OpenTelemetry Collector fleet deployments 06:49 - from configuration management to observability 10:23 - OpAMP for Kubernetes 15:58 - OpAMP protocol and components 26:54 - OpAMP for remote management of OTel Java SDK and other agents 33:38 - server implementations for OpAMP 36:33 - adopter vendors and end-users 39:14 - project maturity 42:59 - protocol vs. product 47:55 - OpAMP Gateway launch 51:10 - Scale of OTel Collector deployments 54:56 - OpAMP roadmap 59:12 - where to follow the project and Andy 1:02:34 - outro Resources: OpAMP specification: https://opentelemetry.io/docs/specs/opamp/ OpAMP for OpenTelemetry Collector: https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/blob/main/cmd/opampsupervisor/specification/README.md Nike talk at KubeCon on using OpAMP: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J68ThM9DqQ0 OpAMP Gateway Extension - launch blog: https://bindplane.com/blog/opamp-for-opentelemetry-managing-collector-fleets-and-introducing-the-new-opamp-gateway-extension Socials: Dotan Horovits ============ X (Twitter): @horovits LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/horovits Mastodon: @horovits@fosstodon BlueSky: @horovits.bsky.social Andy Keller ========== X (Twitter): @andykellr LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewjkeller/ BlueSky: ⁠https://bsky.app/profile/openobservability.bsky.social⁠ X (Twitter): ⁠⁠https://x.com/OpenObserv⁠⁠ LinkedIn: ⁠https://www.linkedin.com/company/openobservability/⁠ YouTube: ⁠ ⁠https://www.youtube.com/@openobservabilitytalks⁠⁠ OpenObservability Talks episodes are released monthly, on the last Thursday of each month and are available for listening on your favorite podcast app and on YouTube.

February 26, 2026Episode 81 hr 1 min

The State of OpenTelemetry: Insights from OTel Unplugged Europe - OpenObservability Talks S6E08

February 2026 the OpenTelemetry community gathered at OTel Unplugged event in Brussels. It was the first time this unconference was held in Europe, bringing together maintainers, contributors, governance committee members, and end usersIn this episode our host Dotan Horovits and guest Juraci Paixão Kröhling will discuss their insights from the event about the current state of the project, roadmap, challenges, community and more. Juraci is a software engineer, a Governance Committee member for the OpenTelemetry project, and an emeritus maintainer of the Jaeger project, and the co-founder of OllyGarden, an OpenTelemetry-based startup. You can read the recap post: https://medium.com/p/e00f219f7460/ Show Notes: 00:00 - intro 01:39 - OTel Unplugged background 06:60 - stabilization and graduation 21:49 - OTel blueprints 26:24 - OTel collectors tied to vendors 30:14 - bad telemetry 32:40 - OpenTelemetry-Prometheus compatibility 39:49 - OpenTelemetry Injector 43:07 - OpenTelemetry Weaver 45:33 - Instrumentation Score 51:15 - mobile and browser observability 52:23 - YAML configuration for SDK 55:19 - additional events for OTel community 58:00 - Jaeger v2.15.0 release 1:00:18 - outro Resources: OTel Unplugged: https://opentelemetry.io/blog/2025/otel-unplugged-fosdem/ OTel OBI for eBPF instrumentation: https://medium.com/p/377cb0432bf1 Mobile observability with OTel: https://medium.com/p/2eb847c41941 OTel Injector: https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-injector OTel Weaver and Observability by Design approach: https://opentelemetry.io/blog/2025/otel-weaver/ OTel blueprints proposal: https://github.com/open-telemetry/community/pull/3094 Instrumentation Score: https://github.com/instrumentation-score/spec Jaeger v2.15.0 release: https://github.com/jaegertracing/jaeger/releases/tag/v2.15.0 Socials: BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/openobservability.bsky.social X (Twitter): ⁠https://twitter.com/OpenObserv⁠ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/openobservability/ YouTube: ⁠https://www.youtube.com/@openobservabilitytalks⁠ Dotan Horovits ============ Twitter: @horovits LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/horovits Mastodon: @horovits@fosstodon BlueSky: @horovits.bsky.social Juraci Paixão Kröhling ================== LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jpkroehling/ OpenObservability Talks episodes are released monthly, on the last Thursday of each month and are available for listening on your favorite podcast app and on YouTube.

January 8, 2026Episode 754 min

A Decade of CNCF: Fireside Chat with the CTO - OpenObservability Talks S6E07

In the opening episode of 2026, we mark a major milestone—a decade to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF)—with none other than the CNCF’s CTO and co-founder, Chris Aniszczyk. Chris joins host Dotan Horovits on a fascinating fireside chat, looking back at the CNCF’s journey from a bold experiment into a central pillar of modern infrastructure. They discuss the current state of cloud-native, across Kubernetes and an ecosystem of over 200 projects, and share their grounded predictions for 2026 and into the second decade. Beyond his role at the CNCF, Chris Aniszczyk serves as Executive Director of the Open Container Initiative (OCI), and CTO, Cloud & Infrastructure, at The Linux Foundation, the parent organization of the CNCF, OCI, OpenInfra and more. At Twitter, he created their open source program and led their open source efforts. You can read the recap post: https://medium.com/p/479e6bbf793c/ Show Notes: 00:00 - intro 01:51 - 10th anniversary to the CNCF 06:18 - the expanding scope of cloud native and Kubernetes 14:58 - the community expansion around the world 20:49 - KubeCon Europe 29:30 - consolidation of observability and security 34:00 - intersection of CNCF, FinOps and AI 37:35 - AI-generated code contribution for open source 43:46 - announcing the Agentic AI Foundation and MCP donation 53:00 - outro Resources: Observability for AI workloads: https://medium.com/p/b8972ba1b6baCNCF Ambassador’s Reflections on 10 Years of CNCF: https://medium.com/p/a796646db552 Agentic AI Foundation formation: https://www.linuxfoundation.org/press/linux-foundation-announces-the-formation-of-the-agentic-ai-foundation Socials: BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/openobservability.bsky.social Twitter: ⁠https://twitter.com/OpenObserv⁠ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/openobservability/ YouTube: ⁠https://www.youtube.com/@openobservabilitytalks⁠ Dotan Horovits ============ Twitter: @horovits LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/horovits Mastodon: @horovits@fosstodon BlueSky: @horovits.bsky.social Chris Aniszczyk =============== Twitter: @cra LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/caniszczyk/ Mastodon: @cra@macaw.social OpenObservability Talks episodes are released monthly, on the last Thursday of each month and are available for listening on your favorite podcast app and on YouTube.

November 26, 2025Episode 61 hr 1 min

OpenTelemetry for GenAI and the OpenLLMetry project - OpenObservability Talks S6E06

Generative AI is everywhere, but how do we monitor and observe it? OpenTelemetry has been a prominent tool and standard for observability, and recently the OTel community has been aiming to expand its scope and cover GenAI workloads with semantic conventions and tools. In this episode, Horovits is joined by Nir Gazit, creator of the OpenLLMetry project, and member of the OpenTelemetry Generative AI SIG. We discuss new semantic conventions, tracing prompts and model behavior, the OpenLLMetry project’s journey, and what observability even means for modern AI systems. Nir Gazit is the CEO and co-founder of Traceloop, and brings a wealth of data and AI experience, with previous experience leading AI teams at Google and serving as the Chief Architect at Fiverr. You can read the recap post: https://medium.com/p/81b9cea6a771/ Show Notes: 00:00 - intro 04:09 - what is observability for AI 18:07 - AI observability differences from traditional observability 25:22 - OpenLLMetry intro 41:21 - OpenLLMetry latest updates and roadmap 47:00 - OpenTelemetry GenAI Semantic Conventions SIG 56:03 - KubeCon updates: CrossPlane, Knative, Dragonfly, in-toto reached CNCF graduation 1:00:08 - outro Resources: OpenTelemetry Generative AI Observability SIG: https://github.com/open-telemetry/community/blob/1c71595874e5d125ca92ec3b0e948c4325161c8a/projects/llm-semconv.md https://github.com/traceloop/openllmetry https://github.com/traceloop/hub https://github.com/traceloop/opentelemetry-mcp-server Socials: BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/openobservability.bsky.social Twitter: ⁠https://twitter.com/OpenObserv⁠ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/openobservability/ YouTube: ⁠https://www.youtube.com/@openobservabilitytalks⁠ Dotan Horovits ============ Twitter: @horovits LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/horovits Mastodon: @horovits@fosstodon BlueSky: @horovits.bsky.social Nir Gazit ======== Twitter: https://x.com/nir_ga LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nirga/ OpenObservability Talks episodes are released monthly, on the last Thursday of each month and are available for listening on your favorite podcast app and on YouTube.

October 26, 2025Episode 51 hr 0 min

Unveiling OpenTelemetry eBPF Instrumentation - OpenObservability Talks S6E05

eBPF holds the potential for true automatic instrumentation for observability. OpenTelemetry eBPF Instrumentation (OBI) is a new addition to the OpenTelemetry project, which brings the promise of a multi-language, multi-protocol auto-instrumentation, thanks to a code donation by Grafana Labs. Our guest today is Mario Macías, Principal Software Engineer at Grafana Labs and OpenTelemetry eBFP Instrument maintainer. Macías joins Horovits to share about OBI, its origins, capabilities and how it fits into the broader OpenTelemetry project. Mario holds a Ph.D. in Computer Architecture and for the last 8 years he's been working in observability at different companies. He also authored books in Spanish language, such as "Programación en Go" or "Introducción a Apache Spark". You can read the recap post: https://medium.com/p/377cb0432bf1 Show Notes: 00:00 - episode intro 02:11 - guest intro 05:15 - Beyla origins 08:45 - OBI for app monitoring 14:46 - no-code multi-language instrumentation 23:12 - OBI trace support 33:58 - OBI components 43:39 - Beyla project new focus 47:21 - OTel instrumentation SIG 51:34 - collaboration with other OTel components and SIGs 54:59 - OBI roadmap 59:26 - outro Resources: OBI on GitHub: https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-ebpf-instrumentation/ Grafana Beyla donation: https://grafana.com/blog/2025/05/07/opentelemetry-ebpf-instrumentation-beyla-donation/ eBPF for continuous profiling and the Parca project: https://medium.com/p/8afd5bafd498 eBPF for tracing and OTel GoLang Auto-instrumentation SIG: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFykWV1mLAI&list=PLd57eY2edRXz4djMETYTm-2p8WGTdoX3D eBPF for Kubernetes monitoring and the Pixie project: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYDBj5ctKaw&list=PLd57eY2edRXz4djMETYTm-2p8WGTdoX3D&index=52 Dotan Horovits ============ Twitter: @horovits LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/horovits Mastodon: @horovits@fosstodon BlueSky: @horovits.bsky.social Mario Macías =========== LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mariomac/ Mastodon: https://masto.es/@macias Socials: BlueSky: ⁠https://bsky.app/profile/openobservability.bsky.social⁠ Twitter: ⁠⁠https://twitter.com/OpenObserv⁠⁠ LinkedIn: ⁠https://www.linkedin.com/company/openobservability/⁠ YouTube: ⁠ ⁠https://www.youtube.com/@openobservabilitytalks⁠⁠ OpenObservability Talks episodes are released monthly, on the last Thursday of each month and are available for listening on your favorite podcast app and on YouTube.

September 28, 2025Episode 41 hr 1 min

Cloud Native Spotlight: KEDA & Dapr Projects - OpenObservability Talks S6E04

In this episode we explore how Dapr and KEDA—two CNCF graduated projects—are reshaping cloud-native application development and what that means for observability. From event-driven architectures to autoscaling and service runtime, we discuss how these building blocks fit into modern systems. We discuss major capabilities around resilience, scalability, observability and even agentic AI support. Our guest for this episode is Yaron Schneider, co-creator of both Dapr and KEDA projects, and co-founder and CTO of Diagrid. He also brings years of leadership at Microsoft on scalable cloud architecture. You can read the recap posts: Part 1 - Dapr: https://medium.com/p/eb2f4013d9a1/ Part 2 - KEDA: https://medium.com/p/d74f75c0021a/ Show Notes: 00:00 - episode intro 01:19 - guest intro and Dapr & KEDA intro 04.53 - why Microsoft created KEDA 14:43 - why Microsoft decided to open-source KEDA 16:58 - why Microsoft created Dapr 24:52 - observability in Dapr 33:38 - shifting from logs to traces 37:46 - building a startup around foundation-led open source 46:22 - agentic AI support in Dapr 49:11 - Dapr updates and roadmap 52:15 - KEDA updates and roadmap 53:50 - Dapr at KubeCon NA 55:08 - Jaeger celebrates 10th anniversary 56:13 - OpenTelemetry Collector user survey 56:58 - proposal for a new OTel SIG for resource metadata semantic conventions 1:00:00 - outro Resources: Dapr: https://dapr.io/ KEDA: https://keda.sh/ Dapr accepted to graduation, Dec 2024, my LI post: https://www.linkedin.com/embed/feed/update/urn:li:share:7262354292794159105 Announcing Dapr AI Agents: https://www.cncf.io/blog/2025/03/12/announcing-dapr-ai-agents/ Jaeger 10th anniversary: https://medium.com/jaegertracing/jaeger-at-10-forged-in-community-reborn-in-opentelemetry-621d4eabdeda Jaeger v2 and alignment with OpenTelemetry: https://medium.com/p/be612dbee774 Proposal for a new OpenTelemetry SIG: Service and Deployment Semantic Conventions: https://github.com/open-telemetry/community/pull/2837/ OTel Collector Follow-up Survey: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfbpqBcCVfmRj_Rk_Sd6zaBGpfzGSBvSZ6CdVn6PPBbbmPIOw/viewform Socials: BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/openobservability.bsky.social Twitter: ⁠https://twitter.com/OpenObserv⁠ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/openobservability/ YouTube: ⁠https://www.youtube.com/@openobservabilitytalks⁠ Dotan Horovits ============ Twitter: https://twitter.com/horovits LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/horovits/ BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/horovits.bsky.social Mastodon: https://fosstodon.org/@horovits Yaron Schneider ============== Twitter: https://x.com/yaronschneider LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/yaron-schneider-2130b7a3/ The podcast episodes are available for listening on your favorite podcast app and on YouTube.

August 30, 2025Episode 359 min

ClickStack: ClickHouse’s New Observability Stack Unveiled - OpenObservability Talks S6E03

The ClickHouse open source project has gained interest in the observability community, thanks to its outstanding performance benchmarks. Now ClickHouse is doubling down on observability with the release of ClickStack, a new open source observability stack that bundles in ClickHouse, OpenTelemetry and HyperDX frontend. I invited Mike Shi, the co-founder of HyperDX and co-creator of ClickStack, to tell us all about this new project. Mike is Head of Observability at ClickHouse, and brings prior observability experience with Elasticsearch and more. You can read the recap post: https://medium.com/p/73f129a179a3/ Show Notes: 00:00 episode and guest intro 04:38 taking the open source path as an entrepreneur 10:51 the HyperDX observability user experience 16:08 challenges in implementing observability directly on ClickHouse 20:03 intro to ClickStack and incorporating OpenTelemetry 32:35 balancing simplicity and flexibility 36:15 SQL vs. Lucene query languages 39:06 performance, cardinality and the new JSON type 52:14 use cases in production by OpenAI, Anthropic, Tesla and more 55:38 episode outro Resources: HyperDX https://github.com/hyperdxio/hyperdx ClickStack https://clickhouse.com/docs/use-cases/observability/clickstack Shopify’s Journey to Planet-Scale Observability: https://medium.com/p/9c0b299a04dd ClickHouse: Breaking the Speed Limit for Observability and Analytics https://medium.com/p/2004160b2f5e New JSON data type for ClickHouse: https://clickhouse.com/blog/a-new-powerful-json-data-type-for-clickhouse Socials: BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/openobservability.bsky.social Twitter: ⁠https://twitter.com/OpenObserv⁠ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/openobservability/ YouTube: ⁠https://www.youtube.com/@openobservabilitytalks⁠ Dotan Horovits ============ Twitter: @horovits LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/horovits Mastodon: @horovits@fosstodon BlueSky: @horovits.bsky.social Mike Shi ======= Twitter: https://x.com/MikeShi42 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikeshi42 BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/mikeshi42.bsky.social OpenObservability Talks episodes are released monthly, on the last Thursday of each month and are available for listening on your favorite podcast app and on YouTube.