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How Prometheus Exporters Work With OpenTelemetry

Running distributed systems means you need clear visibility into how your services behave. Prometheus has been the standard for metrics for a long time, and OpenTelemetry is now giving teams a more consistent way to collect telemetry across their stack. In many setups, you'll have both: existing Prometheus instrumentation that's already in place, and new components instrumented with OpenTelemetry.

Introducing Braintrust by Cortex: Real conversations about engineering excellence

I'm excited to share that we're launching Braintrust by Cortex, a podcast I've been wanting to create for a while now. After years of building Cortex and working with engineering leaders across industries, I’ve noticed an opportunity for conversations that dig deeper into the daily work of building great engineering teams.

The High Cost of Vendor Lock-In in Cloud Computing and How to Avoid it

Cloud vendor lock-in threatens agility and raises costs. Discover the high price of proprietary services, egress fees, and technical entrenchment, plus the strategic roadmap to escape. Learn how embracing open standards, Kubernetes, and an exit strategy from day one ensures long-term flexibility and control.

Building smarter with AI: Why legacy infrastructure is the biggest bottleneck

Josh Mesout (Chief Innovation Officer at Civo) took the main stage at Civo Navigate London 2025 to deliver a critical message: The AI revolution isn't just coming, it's here, and the way companies are built is changing faster than ever before. His session cut through the hype, delivering hard data on what separates the companies that scale AI from the ones that sink money into failed prototypes. The takeaway is blunt: The biggest threat to your AI ambition isn't the model; it’s your infrastructure.

How to Use MetricFire Logging: Visualize Logs & Metrics Together in Grafana

Want full visibility into your systems? In this step-by-step tutorial, we show you how to use Grafana Loki with Promtail on Hosted Graphite by MetricFire to stream logs alongside your metrics. All visualized in Grafana dashboards. No more toggling between tools — get the full observability stack in one place.

How to Optimize Azure Costs and Improve Cloud Efficiency with FinOps

In this episode of the FinOps on Azure podcast, Dustin Mullenix from KPMG talks about his role leading a FinOps team that handles Azure spend for KPMG's audit business. He shares how internal FinOps teams work with consulting groups, the challenges of Azure's service tiers like managed disks and SQL options, and the trade-offs between cost and performance. Dustin discusses how to handle cost changes, manage knowledge in a big company, this talk is useful for anyone dealing with cloud costs in a large setup.