Tag logs

New Log Management features in GCP

I recently co-authored a blog post for the Google Cloud Platform Blog, along with my colleague Keith Chen. In the blog post we spoke about our latest features, which help organizations builds their own multi-tenant log management features on Cloud…

Why are we still tailing log files?

Sit down with any developer today, even those at pretty new software companies, and you’ll see them doing something that programmers have been doing for years — you’ll see them tailing log files. But why? Why are we still tailing…

Logs and Time Series are not the same

If you work in the logging, monitoring — or even Observability — space long enough, you eventually end up on team that tries to build a system that handles both logs and time series in a high-performant and cost-efficient manner.…

devopsdays Galway

I will be joining my colleague from Google, Nathen Harvey, to speak in Galway at devopsdays on November 18th and 19th. I’m really looking forward to returning to my home town, and bringing my Monitorama Baltimore 2019 talk to the…

Observing Observability

Monitorama Baltimore 2019 was a great experience, and I really enjoyed the opportunity to speak. I spoke about why Observability and Monitoring sytems struggle to meet their goals, and why they are so hard to build. The slides and video…