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SpaceX's next astronaut launch for NASA is officially on for Feb. 11 as FAA clea

https://www.space.com/space-exploration/launches-spacecraft/spacexs-next-astronaut-launch-for-nas...
1•bookmtn•13s ago•0 comments

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minikeyvalue

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PID Controller

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2•beardyw•1h ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

Ask HN: Why is observability so broken, and what can fix it?

6•idea0rbit•3mo ago

Comments

zarathustra333•3mo ago
are you talking about observability for AI workflows or more generally? I have a friend working on the former.
idea0rbit•3mo ago
both. In general I think most observability systems are broken. This article captures the sentiment pretty well

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/observability-broken-its-time...

tanelpoder•3mo ago
Good article, thanks for sharing. I've been working on one part of this problem space for quite a while too. I want ability to directly drill down into latency reasons and underlying application component threads' wall-clock time, instead of having to correlate various systemwide utilization metrics and try to manually connect the dots.

I'm using eBPF-based dimensional data analysis, starting from bottom up (every system is a bunch of threads, including distributed systems) and move up from there. This doesn't replace existing distributed tracing approaches for end to end request view, but gives you deep observability all the way down to each service's underlying threads' wall-clock time (where blocked, sleeping and why, etc).

At this year's P99CONF I will launch the first GA release of my (open source) 0x.tools xcapture eBPF collectors, with a reference implementation of a TUI tool, showing dimensional performance modeling on these new thread sampling signals (xtop).

A couple of 1-minute asciicasts of xtop are here: https://tanelpoder.com/posts/xcapture-xtop-beta/

fogzen•3mo ago
It’s broken because copying all data somewhere else to query isn’t scalable, technically or financially. Especially when all the observability business models are based on charging for data.

The whole observably industry is based on a flawed approach that you can add it in after the fact, ship that data somewhere else, then charge an arm and a leg to access it. That breaks down quickly in any non-trivial distributed system. Even when ignoring issues with sampling, it is cost prohibitive.

idea0rbit•3mo ago
You are absolutely right. What could an alternate design and business model look like?