Telemetry IQ

The Blog for Modern telemetry

BigPanda cuts observability spend by over 60% and ingestion by 93%

Discover how BigPanda cut observability costs by 63% and ingestion by 93% without sacrificing visibility, thanks to Sawmills AI-powered telemetry management. Read the full case study.

Sawmills smart telemetry platform adds Live Tail to help visualize telemetry changes

Sawmills introduces Live Tail, a real-time log simulation tool that lets teams preview, validate, and fine-tune telemetry changes before ingestion or billing.

Solving cardinality issues at scale: A practical guide to probabilistic data structures

Learn how to solve high-cardinality challenges at scale using probabilistic data structures.

DevOps Telemetry for Modern Engineering Teams

Learn what telemetry in DevOps really looks like, complete with real-world examples, pitfalls, and how to optimize observability across your stack.

Observability agents are coming. Your telemetry is not ready for them

Observability agents can't analyze what they can't read. Learn how to apply the right context to your telemetry data.

What Is a Telemetry Pipeline? Everything You Need to Know

Learn what a telemetry pipeline is, how it works, and why it’s essential for scalable observability and telemetry management.

Telemetry Data: What It Is and How It Works

Learn what telemetry data is, how it works, and why it’s essential for observability, performance monitoring, and DevOps workflows.

Scaling OTel Collectors on CPU? Here’s the Smarter Way with KEDA

Why CPU-based autoscaling is a trap for telemetry workloads

OpenTelemetry and Prometheus: Using Them Together

Learn how to collect metrics using the OpenTelemetry Collector and store them in Prometheus

Your observability stack is bloated, brittle, and bleeding money.

Let’s be blunt: your observability stack is bloated, brittle, and bleeding money.

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