Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

In this episode of Pastries with SREs, we dig into Limitless Observability with a sweet side of unified observability strategy. If you're tired of siloed tools, fractured data, and swivel-chair investigations, this one’s for you. We explore: Why are silos still the norm in modern observability? What’s the true cost of inefficiencies across logs, metrics, and traces? How can SREs, IT operations, and dev teams shift to a no-compromise, unified observability model?

Hear what SolarWinds Product Evangelist Sascha Giese has to say about the findings. Plus, learn how your peers are managing AI adoption and other IT challenges.

Unexpected cloud cost spikes can derail your budget. Datadog’s Cloud Cost Anomalies automatically surfaces unusual spending — whether it’s from a team, account, service, cluster, or region. Quickly identify the source, pivot into Cost Explorer, and take action before costs spiral out of control.

Canvas is an AI-guided workspace inside Honeycomb that combines an AI assistant with an interactive notebook for visualizing query results and traces. You can ask a natural language question about your data and Canvas will immediately start exploring your traces, through multiple queries and other tools, to find the right next steps. Instead of having to write each query yourself, Canvas automatically proposes relational queries, comparisons, and visualizations that explain why an SLO fired or what changed after a deploy.

Turns out, this MCP thing is pretty solid. We've built the MCP server to tap into all the different areas of context within Sentry and make it easy to bring these into your editor client to help debug your application. Want to know the most fixable issues in your environment? Easy. Want to see your query performance for your backend? Just ask it.