Originally posted in Obics.io The observability world is changing in very interesting ways. In the last decade we’ve experienced the rise of the OpenTelemetry standard and the rise of open source solutions like Elastic and Grafana. Now, the observability world is experiencing a new wave of technologies: eBPF based instrumentation Bring your own Cloud (BYOC) Columnar data stores, most prominently ClickHouse Telemetry Pipelines There’s also the AI SRE wave, which is more of a “consume observability” use case, whereas I want to talk about technologies that change the core infrastructure of how we gather and store telemetry.