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KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America is in Salt Lake City this week, and Bindplane will be at booth 253. Come say hi! We have four talks and we're bringing a ton of cool updates with us. So many of you were eager to try Bindplane Agent while it was in early access. That changes today. Bindplane Agent is generally available. If you've built pipelines in Bindplane before, you know the drill. Pick a source, pick a destination, add processors in the right order, fill in the settings, roll it out.

Ask Olly to audit your alert coverage and it pulls the whole set through the API, works through it with a script, and hands back the gaps as a report you can send to the team. DataPrime and PromQL already answer the questions that fit a query language, and Olly has been answering those for a long time. The sandbox is for everything else: the sources that have no query language of their own, the correlations that span two languages at once, and the analysis that needs a script rather than a filter.

OpenTelemetry (OTel) is an open-source observability framework, hosted by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), that standardizes how your applications generate, collect, and export telemetry data such as traces, metrics, and logs. The instrumentation stays vendor-neutral, so you can instrument a service once, send its telemetry to the observability tool your team uses today, and point it at a different tool next year without touching application code.

We gave five metrics backends the same budget, the same week of data and the same ten queries, then ran those queries at rising concurrency. At one query at a time, the open source engines looked strong. Under concurrency, two of them stopped answering, and the rest slowed down by an order of magnitude.

Of the 12 Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) requirements, Requirement 10 is one your platform team can engineer directly. Under the PCI DSS v4.0.1 standard, automated log review has been a tested requirement since March 31, 2025. Your assessor will test the mechanism that performs the review. This PCI compliance logging guide covers each 10.x sub-requirement, maps the seven event classes to log sources, and lays out a nine-step program you can hand to your assessor.