Observability in 2026: OpenTelemetry, eBPF, and the Death of Traditional Monitoring
Traditional monitoring is dead. Not in the hyperbolic, conference-keynote sense where everything is always dying, but in the practical sense…
Observability vs Monitoring: Why Your Dashboards Are Lying to You
Your Dashboards Are Not Telling You What You Think There is a dangerous assumption baked into most engineering organizations: if…
Structured Logging in Practice: From printf to OpenTelemetry-Ready Logs
What Good Logging Actually Looks Like in Production Most applications log. Very few log well. The difference between logs that…
OpenTelemetry in 2026: The Standard That Finally Unified Observability
For most of the 2010s, observability was a vendor war. Datadog used one agent, New Relic used another, Jaeger used…
eBPF in Production: Observability and Security Without Kernel Modules
eBPF has moved from an obscure kernel technology to one of the most consequential infrastructure tools of the past decade.…
Observability Beyond Logs: Traces, Metrics, and the Modern Monitoring Stack
When I started running NovVista, the architecture was simple: a single server in Virginia, a domain, and an optimistic assumption…
Monitoring Your Server Without Enterprise Tools: Prometheus, Grafana, and Uptime Kuma
Datadog costs $23-46/host/month. Here is how to build comparable observability with Prometheus, Grafana, and Uptime Kuma for free.