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June 2025

May 2025

Observability for LLMs: Why It Matters and How to Achieve It
Observability is crucial for LLM apps to ensure performance, reliability, and user trust. It involves monitoring metrics, logging prompts, outputs, and…
 • Jigar Bhatt
Building an In-House Observability Platform with a Data Lake (AWS S3 + Apache Iceberg)
In-house observability with data lake: unify metrics, logs & traces on AWS S3 + Iceberg to slash cost, dodge vendor lock-in & boost analytics.
 • Jigar Bhatt
Scaling Observability: Designing a High-Volume Telemetry Pipeline - Part 4
In Part 3, we explored building scalable telemetry pipelines with agents, batching, Kafka buffering, and backpressure control for resilient…
 • Jigar Bhatt
Scaling Observability: Designing a High-Volume Telemetry Pipeline - Part 3
In Part 2, we saw that scaling observability pipelines involves specialized strategies for each telemetry signal type.
 • Jigar Bhatt
Groundcover Secures $35M to Challenge Observability Giants
In a significant shake-up within the observability space, Israeli startup Groundcover recently announced a $35 million Series B funding round, led by…
 • Jigar Bhatt
Scaling Observability: Designing a High-Volume Telemetry Pipeline - Part 2
In the Part 1, we saw that a scalable pipeline architecture consists of data collection, processing, storage, and querying stages, with key design…
 • Jigar Bhatt

April 2025

Scaling Observability: Designing a High-Volume Telemetry Pipeline - Part 1
Building observability in large-scale, cloud-native systems requires collecting telemetry data (metrics, traces, and logs) at extremely high volumes.
 • Jigar Bhatt
Building Your First Observability Stack with Open‑Source Tools
Goal: Spin up Prometheus+Alertmanager, Loki+Promtail, Jaeger, and Grafana with a single docker‑compose.yml, then watch a tiny Java HTTP service emit…
 • Jigar Bhatt
Using the OpenTelemetry Collector: A Practical Guide
OpenTelemetry’s Collector is a vendor-neutral service that sits between your applications and observability backends.
 • Jigar Bhatt
Getting Started with OpenTelemetry (OTel 101)
OpenTelemetry (OTel) has quickly become a cornerstone of modern observability.
 • Jigar Bhatt
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