Blog posts by Simran Kumari

Passionate about observability, AI systems, and cloud-native tools. All in on DevOps and improving the developer experience.

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LLM Cost Monitoring with OpenObserve: Track Token Usage, Control AI Spend, and Visualize Every Dollar Across Your LLM Pipelines

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LLM Observability Cost Monitoring

LLM Cost Monitoring with OpenObserve: Track Token Usage, Control AI Spend, and Visualize Every Dollar Across Your LLM Pipelines

Learn how to implement LLM cost monitoring with OpenObserve. This hands-on guide covers token-level tracing, cost dashboards, per-user and per-model spend attribution, VRL-powered span enrichment, real-time alerting, and AI agent cost observability.

Simran Kumari

2026-04-16

OpenTelemetry for LLMs: What It Is and Why Your SRE Team Needs It Now

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OpenTelemetry LLM Observability

OpenTelemetry for LLMs: What It Is and Why Your SRE Team Needs It Now

Learn how OpenTelemetry's GenAI Semantic Conventions bring production-grade observability to LLM workloads. A complete guide for DevOps and SRE teams covering traces, metrics, logs, and a hands-on RAG instrumentation walkthrough.

Simran Kumari

2026-04-16

LLM Monitoring Best Practices: The Complete Guide for 2026

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LLM Monitoring Observability

LLM Monitoring Best Practices: The Complete Guide for 2026

Discover the essential LLM monitoring best practices to ensure reliability, safety, and performance in production. Learn how to track hallucinations, latency, costs, and more.

Add Full Observability to a New Microservice in Under 30 Minutes

Learn how to set up logs, metrics, and traces for a new microservice in under 30 minutes. A step-by-step guide to achieving full observability quickly and efficiently.

Simran Kumari

2026-04-03

Announcement

OpenChoreo Chooses OpenObserve for Cloud-Native Logging and Tracing

When the OpenChoreo team needed an observability backend for their CNCF sandbox Internal Developer Platform, they chose OpenObserve. Here's why and what it means for Kubernetes teams everywhere.

Simran Kumari

2026-04-01

How To

AI Agent Monitoring: How to Observe Autonomous AI Agents in Production

Learn how to monitor autonomous AI agents in production using observability best practices. Track agent behavior, logs, traces, and performance with tools like OpenTelemetry to ensure reliability, transparency, and control at scale.

Simran Kumari

2026-03-30

Implementing Distributed Tracing in a Java Application with OpenObserve

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OpenTelemetry Application

Implementing Distributed Tracing in a Java Application with OpenObserve

Learn how to implement distributed tracing in a Java Spring Boot microservices application using the OpenTelemetry Java Agent and OpenObserve. Covers zero-code auto-instrumentation, JVM metrics, cross-service trace propagation, flamegraphs, and Gantt charts , with working source code and curl examples.

AI-Assisted Monitoring via MCP

Learn how AI-assisted monitoring using MCP enhances observability with intelligent alerts, anomaly detection, and automated insights for faster incident response.

Structured Logging in Production: The Field Guide Nobody Gave You

Learn how to implement structured logging in production. Improve debugging, searchability, and observability with best practices and real-world examples.

The Prometheus Cardinality Bomb: How to Prevent It Before It Blows Up

Learn what the Prometheus cardinality bomb is, why high-cardinality metrics break your monitoring, and how to detect, prevent, and fix it effectively.

OpenTelemetry Collector Contrib: A Comprehensive Guide

Learn how to use the OpenTelemetry Collector Contrib distribution (otelcol-contrib) to collect, process, and export telemetry data. This guide covers architecture, key components, the Docker image, configuration examples, and practical deployment tips.

Full Stack Observability: The Complete Guide

A complete guide to full stack observability - covering frontend, backend, infrastructure, traces, logs, metrics, and OpenTelemetry for DevOps and SRE teams.

Incident Correlation: The Complete Guide to Faster Root Cause Analysis

Learn how incident correlation transforms observability by connecting logs, metrics, traces, and alerts into actionable insights. Discover why modern engineering teams rely on correlated telemetry to reduce MTTR and eliminate blind spots in distributed systems.

Simran Kumari

2026-02-02

DataDog vs OpenObserve Part 7: Pipelines - Datadog Alternative in 2026

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Comparisons Pipelines

DataDog vs OpenObserve Part 7: Pipelines - Datadog Alternative in 2026

Hands-on comparison of DataDog vs OpenObserve pipelines. Explore real-time vs scheduled processing, VRL-based transformations, multi-destination routing, and cost-efficient, unified observability pipelines without extra infrastructure.

Simran Kumari

2026-01-16

DataDog vs OpenObserve: Part 5 - Alerts, Monitors, and Destinations

Engineering

Alerts Comparisons Observability

DataDog vs OpenObserve: Part 5 - Alerts, Monitors, and Destinations

Hands-on comparison of DataDog and OpenObserve for alerting and monitoring. DataDog's proprietary monitor syntax and per-custom-metric charges vs OpenObserve's SQL-based unified alerts, composite conditions with joins, and Jinja2-templated notifications. Real test data shows custom metric pricing impact on alert coverage versus flat-rate pricing with comprehensive alerting capabilities.

Simran Kumari

2026-01-12

Release

Major Product Update! OpenObserve v0.40.0

OpenObserve v0.40.0 comes just in time for the new year, a milestone release that brings major architectural improvements, powerful new alerting capabilities, enhanced observability features, and significant UI/UX refinements. This release represents months of work focused on making OpenObserve more powerful, reliable, and user-friendly.

Simran Kumari, Jake Swiss

2026-01-06

Convert Raw Logs into Metrics with OpenObserve Pipelines

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Pipelines Metrics

Convert Raw Logs into Metrics with OpenObserve Pipelines

Learn how to convert raw logs into metrics using OpenObserve pipelines. Step-by-step guide to extract time-series metrics for faster dashboards and reliable alerts.

How to Debug a Real-Time Pipeline in OpenObserve: Complete Guide

A step-by-step guide to debugging real-time observability pipelines in OpenObserve, covering log ingestion, pipeline errors, and troubleshooting.

Simran Kumari

2025-12-15

Payment Monitoring with Stripe in OpenObserve

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Logging Integrations Dashboards

Payment Monitoring with Stripe in OpenObserve

Enable end-to-end payment monitoring by sending Stripe events to OpenObserve and analyzing success/failure rates using dashboards, SQL queries, and alerts.

RED Metrics: Monitoring Requests, Errors, and Latency for Microservices

Learn how to use RED Metrics: Requests, Errors, Duration to monitor microservices effectively. Explore dashboards, SLOs, alerts, and OpenObserve examples for real-time observability.

Monitoring AWS Bedrock: Collecting Logs & Metrics in OpenObserve

Learn how to monitor AWS Bedrock with CloudWatch, Kinesis Firehose, and OpenObserve. Track latency, errors, token usage, and model performance in real-time.

Simran Kumari

2025-11-28

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