#chatops

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A couple of years ago, we wrote about the idea of Chat Ops, why the idea is valuable and interesting (see Fluent Bit – Powering Chat Ops, Fluent Bit with Chat Ops, for example). The essence of the idea was: Using a collaboration or chat platform like Slack could ease and even accelerate the response to operational issues (as systems process more data and faster). Conversational collaborative…

My friend Patrick Stephens and Fluent Bit committer will present at the Open Source Monitoring Conference in Germany later this year. Unfortunately, I won’t be able to make it, as my day job is closing in on its MVP product release. The idea behind the presentation is to improve the ability to detect and respond to Observability events, as the time between detection and action is the period…

The other month, I described a presentation and demo (Fluent Bit – Powering Chat Ops) we’ll be doing for the Cloud Native Rejekts conference, which is the precursor event to KubeCon in Paris this week. Since that post, we’re excited to say that, with Patrick Stephens’s contributions from Chronosphere, the demo is now in the Fluent GitHub repo. It has been nicely packaged with a Docker Compose, so…

When it comes to observability, particularly logs, and traces, there is a historical tendency to process things in a batch manner or even only once the need to determine the root cause of an outage, often only using something in the metrics to indicate something might not be right. This misses a real opportunity given Fluent Bit can capture observability events in near real-time, whether that is…