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As businesses scale, so do their observability needs, but many find themselves stuck with costly, inflexible platforms that no longer serve them. Despite mounting frustrations, the complexity of migration keeps companies from making a change. The risk of losing critical data, disrupting workflows, or rebuilding everything from scratch often outweighs the benefits of switching. Most vendors offer little to no migration support, forcing teams to manually reconfigure dashboards, alerts, and integrations.

If you’ve ever wrangled sidecars or sprinkled instrumentation code just to get basic trace data, you know the setup overhead isn’t always worth the payoff. But what if it was… just easier? That’s where the OpenTelemetry Operator for Kubernetes steps in… and it plays great with Coralogix out of the box!

When was the last time you asked about the architecture behind your observability provider? For most IT professionals whether in development, operations, or security, it’s not a question that naturally comes up. Yet, this architectural detail could be the difference between insight at scale and runaway costs. People are drawn to the features, the shiny things. They promise to unlock insight, drive faster response times, and tighten security.

There’s a problem in engineering culture that we don’t talk about enough: observability is an afterthought. It’s treated as tooling, not thinking. As a checkbox, not a habit. And that mindset gap creates real consequences: longer outages, frustrated teams and massive business costs. Atlassian’s Incident Management for High-Velocity Teams overview cites a 2014 study by Gartner, that the average cost of IT downtime is $5,600 per minute.

Tracing in Istio environments should be seamless, but too often, teams run into a frustrating problem—traces are broken. Requests jump between services, but instead of a complete flow, Coralogix displays fragmented spans. Tracing should work out of the box in those environments. Istio’s sidecars capture spans automatically, so why are traces incomplete? The issue is almost always context propagation, and fixing it doesn’t have to mean modifying application code.

OpenTelemetry (OTel) is supposed to be the great equalizer in observability, giving teams full control over how they collect, process, and store telemetry data. It was built to be open, flexible, and vendor-neutral. Grafana Alloy claims to be OpenTelemetry-compatible, but scratch beneath the surface, and you’ll see that, based on our investigations, it is not a neutral OpenTelemetry Collector.

There are several big barriers to an effective tracing strategy. Modern applications require complex code instrumentation, and legacy applications might not be so easy to alter, and that’s assuming every engineering team can be engaged to make the necessary changes. eBPF & OpenTelemetry flip this entire problem on its head, and Coralogix is one of the first major observability platforms to leverage this exciting functionality, to provide an unobtrusive, low risk overview of your system.

Imagine you’re a product manager at a B2B SaaS company. Monday morning, a frustrated client floods your inbox—their workflows were disrupted by a slowdown you could’ve caught sooner with better user insights. Now, imagine running an e-commerce store on Cyber Monday. Traffic surges, but abandoned carts spike. Your RUM dashboard reveals slow mobile checkouts. A quick fix saves thousands in sales.

Imagine being the new developer in a bustling tech company. Everyone is rushing to meet deadlines, and no one has time to explain the tangled web of services, databases, and messaging systems that make up the organization’s architecture. You search high and low for documentation, but the few diagrams you find are outdated or incomplete. Feeling lost? This is where metrics can come to the rescue.

As the holiday season comes to an end and we step into 2025 with renewed energy and excitement, Coralogix kicks off the year with a remarkable gift of achievements! In the G2 Winter 2025 Reports, we are thrilled to announce that we’ve been recognized with a phenomenal 126 badges across multiple categories and market segments. This remarkable feat is a testament to the trust and love of our customers and the dedication of our team.