Software Defined Talk

Episode 576: Observability's Next Phase

Software Defined Talk

Show Notes

Brandon talks with OpenObserve's Prabhat Sharma and Shani Shoham: why observability is still broken, how they fixed it, and where AI takes it next.

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Show Links

OpenObserve

OpenObserve on GitHub

Series A and Observability 3.0 announcement blog post

Launching OpenObserve

OpenObserve 2-Minute Demo

Download OpenObserve

Contact Prabhat Sharma

LinkedIn: hiprabhat

Twitter/X: @hiprabhat

Contact Shani Shoham

LinkedIn: shanishoham

Twitter: @shohams

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