Ep 5 - Open-Source Observability & the Challenges of Kubernetes Monitoring - with Jonah Kowall

ITOps, DevOps, AIOps - All Things Ops

ITOps, DevOps, AIOps - All Things Ops
Ep 5 - Open-Source Observability & the Challenges of Kubernetes Monitoring - with Jonah Kowall
Jun 14, 2022 Season 1 Episode 5
Elias Voelker / Jonah Kowall

What are the challenges of Kubernetes Monitoring, and what's the next big leap in DevOps?

In this episode of “All Things Ops”, our host Elias has a wide-ranging conversation with Logz.io CTO Jonah Kowall about the challenges of Kubernetes monitoring, the OpenTelemetry project, open source licensing, recent trends in DevOps and much more.

What's in it for you:

1. Jonah’s views on recent DevOps trends
2. Why Kubernetes monitoring is so hard to get right
3. The promise of the OpenTelemetry project
4. The intricacies of open-source licensing

About Jonah
Jonah Kowall a computer scientist and open-source contributor committing code to observability projects and such as OpenSearch, Jaeger, and OpenTelemetry. Throughout 15 years as a practitioner and manager across startups and large enterprises specialized in operations, security, and performance. In 2011 Jonah changed careers, moving to Gartner to focus on monitoring and observability, speaking and writing research globally for IT leaders and CIOs. In 2015 Jonah joined AppDynamics driving corporate development, product strategy, and vision. In 2020 Jonah joined Logz.io as CTO leading engineering, product strategy and partnership for their open-source based SaaS observability platform.

Find Jonah on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jkowall/
Find him on Twitter: @jkowall
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About Logz.io
Logz.io is a leading cloud-native observability platform that enables engineers to use the best open source tools in the market without the complexity of operating, managing, and scaling them. Logz.io offers four products: Log Management compatible with ELK, Infrastructure Monitoring based on Prometheus, Distributed Tracing based on Jaeger, and an ELK compatible Cloud SIEM. These are offered as fully managed, integrated cloud services designed to help engineers monitor, troubleshoot and secure their distributed cloud workloads more effectively.

Website: https://www.logz.io
Industry: Analytics, AI, SaaS, Cloud Monitoring
Company size: 251 – 500
Headquarters: Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Founded: 2014
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About the host Elias:
Elias is Director of International and Indirect Business at tribe29. He comes from a strategy consulting background, but has been an entrepreneur for the better part of the last 10 years. In his spare time, he likes to do triathlon.

Get in touch with Elias via LinkedIn or email elias.voelker@tribe29.com
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Podcast Music

Music by Ströme, used by permission
‚Panta Rhei‘ written by Mario Schoenhofer
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