The Monthly Buzz, by groundcover - January 2024

As we kick off a new and exciting year, we're excited to renew the Monthly Buzz, our monthly newsletter!

This edition includes:

• Registration to our upcoming Master Class is open! Check out the registration link for more details.
• An overview of the most impactful product updates of the past month, which you may have missed:

• Nodes information tab + searchable query parameters and headers
• Workloads Storage (PVC) insights tab
• Search and filter all your Trace attributes
• New look and capabilities for Workloads

Register to our upcoming Master Class:

End-to-end visibility with eBPF and OpenTelemetry

Join us for an enlightening Master Class on the powerful synergies between OpenTelemetry and eBPF, hosted by our CoFounder Yechezkel Rabinovich , and founding engineer Aviv Zohari .

This session will explore the core concepts of OpenTelemetry and how it is changing how we monitor our cloud environments. We will dive into the evolution of eBPF from a technology used primarily in the world of security to its breakthrough as revolutionary in observability, and demonstrate how groundcover’s unique approach in leveraging both enables unprecedented granularity and end-to-end visibility.

What we’ll cover:

• OpenTelemetry (OTel) and standardization - core concepts and why it’s crucial.
• eBPF and OTel as enablers of end-to-end visibility - from system-wide to app-specific.
• How groundcover leverages the strengths of both technologies.

Recent product updates

Dive even deeper into your infrastructure and applications

Release date: Jan 11, 2024

Get more granular than ever before in the exploration of your Kubernetes clusters, and delve into your application's performance data with an unparalleled level of precision and simplicity, as we release two new features:

• A Nodes information tab that lets you instantly see the status of specific Nodes
• Search and filter by span Query Parameters and Headers

Workload Storage (PVC) insights tab

Release date: Jan 9, 2024

Our Workload information page just got a significant upgrade and you can now instantly view insightful data on the health of your workloads’ PVC.

Visualize your PVC usage, PVC latency and total rate of read and write operations, to take preventive actions when possible, or at least minimize the time it take to pinpoint what’s causing issues.

Search and filter all your Trace attributes

Release date: Jan 4, 2024

Right-click on any trace attribute to open a quick menu that lets you include or exclude specific trace attributes in your search query. This new capability also enables using the @key:value syntax directly in the search bar.

Start searching and filtering all your traces much faster and way more easily!

New look and capabilities for Workloads

Release date: Dec 14, 2023

Significantly enhance your ability to identify, investigate and troubleshoot your cloud environments with some great features and visualizations, designed to simplify and deepen your understanding and analysis of your cloud applications.

Must see!

The legendary Viktor Farcic chooses groundcover as the best observability platform to use in 2024

“[groundcover is] a combination of best-of-breed tools and a touch of eBPF?and quite a few unique features on top. It’s awesome, and I really recommend it to those who want to simplify their observability stack.”

Kubernetes Sidecar Containers: Use Cases and Best Practices

Discover why it's important to take the right steps when configuring sidecars, and best practices for monitoring them so that sidecar containers don't become the weakest link in your application deployment.

Ready to see all these new features (and plenty more) in action?