Originally posted in Obics.io Observability vendors have been billing companies per data volume or per node count for many years. Both of those have exploded in the last decade and the vendors have been enjoying a rapid rise in income. But that also created frustration from the customers. The issue of cost is on everyone’s mind when it comes to observability and the #1 reason for switching vendors, even if you are perfectly happy with everything else.

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.