May 26, 2025

2025-05-26

AWS updates

Two recent observability-related news from AWS services:

• The EKS Dashboard is a centralized display that provides you with organization-wide visibility across your Kubernetes clusters.
• Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus launches query insights and control capabilities, enabling you to identify expensive PromQL queries and prevent their execution.

Prometheus ops

In Understanding and optimizing resource consumption in Prometheus Vladimir Guryanov provides a hands-on deep dive on where and how Prometheus uses compute resources. Thanks!

Observability 2025

The one and only Andrew Mallaband published Observability 2025: Taming Chaos in the Data-Driven Era, providing deep insights into the ecosystem.

Mobile observability

Hanson Ho strikes again: read On the Utility of a (User) Session on Mobile for useful tips.

Auditable observability

Stumbled upon Logs, Metrics, Traces… Leaks? The Case for Auditable Observability by Giam and they are making some good points.

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