Sawmills releases LiveConfig to instantly configure your telemetry pipeline without deployment

As the first smart telemetry platform, Sawmills applies intelligence to your data, helping you reduce costs, improve efficiency, and ensure visibility. Today, we’re building upon that promise with LiveConfig, a new feature that eliminates one of the biggest sources of friction in telemetry operations: the need to redeploy pipelines for configuration changes.

With the release of LiveConfig, Sawmills is the first and only platform that lets you make safe, immediate configuration changes to live processors, without deployments, restarts, or release windows. This not only removes the deployment bottleneck, but it also unlocks a new level of agility. Developers can act the moment they need to, applying changes directly, while DevOps maintains full operational control. What once took days of coordination can now happen in seconds.

Instant, Safe Configuration without Deployments 

With LiveConfig, developers and DevOps teams can now update processor configurations on the fly without restarting pods, scheduling a deployment, or waiting for a release window. This means you’ll experience no downtime, no deploys, and no cross-team delays. 

Whether you're adjusting filters, modifying transformations, or iterating on data enrichment logic, you can now apply updates directly to your live telemetry pipeline in seconds, not hours or days.

Telemetry pipelines are notoriously brittle. Even small changes, like tuning a processor or adjusting a transformation, usually require coordination, review cycles, and release schedules. That slows down engineering teams, prevents quick action on a telemetry issue,  and delays insights.

LiveConfig removes that bottleneck by allowing safe, dynamic configuration of processors already running in production.

Unlike traditional solutions, which require a full pipeline redeploy for any config change, Sawmills isolates routing logic from transformation logic. So while pipeline deployments are still required for changing data routes, everything else can now be updated live.

The technical foundation: Smart Agent + Dynamic Processors

LiveConfig isn’t just a feature—it’s the result of how we’ve architected Sawmills from the ground up. Traditional telemetry pipelines tightly couple configuration with deployment, forcing every change through a risky, time-consuming redeploy. We broke that pattern by separating routing from processing, and by introducing a smarter, more flexible execution layer.

This design is what makes LiveConfig possible:

• Our smart agent runs on the customer side, giving you control over telemetry at the edge.
• Processor configuration is read dynamically by the agent, so changes don’t require a deployment.
  
• The pipeline remains static, while processors become fully hot-loadable.
  

The result is a model where DevOps retains operational control while developers gain the freedom to act instantly—without waiting on permissions, access, or release windows.

The Benefits of LiveConfig

Now, teams have the ability to safely update telemetry processors in real time, without a deployment or restart. That exclusivity translates into clear benefits for both DevOps and developers:

• Immediate action, no delays: Push configuration updates live in seconds instead of waiting hours or days for a release window.
  
• No redeploys, no restarts: Avoid the downtime and risk of pipeline redeployments or pod restarts.
  
• Developer empowerment: Engineers can act independently without waiting on elevated permissions or pipeline access.
  
• Operational safety for DevOps: Updates apply only to dynamic configs, not routing logic, minimizing risk.
  
• Frictionless collaboration: Reduces the back-and-forth between DevOps and engineering teams, streamlining workflows.

LiveConfig is ideal any time you're configuring a processor, whether it’s for data filtering, enrichment, transformation, or redaction. The only time a deployment is required is if you're changing how data is routed.

That means most telemetry operations, from debugging to cost optimization, can now happen live, without waiting on DevOps or getting stuck in change queues.

Experience smart telemetry management

Sawmills was founded to help teams regain control over their telemetry. With LiveConfig, we’re removing one more layer of friction, so you can respond faster, ship safer, and stay in control.

This is not just a new feature—it’s a new way to operate telemetry pipelines. One that’s safer, faster, and finally built for how modern teams work.

Ready to see it in action? Schedule a demo today and experience the first and only telemetry platform that gives you true real-time configuration control.

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