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Chaitanya Sistla is a Principal Solutions Architect working at the intersection of cloud infrastructure, observability, security, and platform engineering. Through O11y Paradise, he shares practical architecture decisions, production lessons, and engineering perspectives from the field.
Chaitanya Sistla works as a Principal Solutions Architect at OpenObserve, a company that builds observability software. When an episode or guide discusses OpenObserve, it is held to the same standards as any other tool.
O11y Paradise is an independent, vendor-neutral observability publication. Contributors may work for organizations building observability technologies. Views expressed here are editorial perspectives, not endorsements of any particular vendor.
A step-by-step investigation of a restarting container: pod status, termination reasons, events, previous logs, resource metrics, and traces.
Kubernetes and cloud-native · Incident investigation · Logs, metrics, traces, and profiling 6 min read
OpenTelemetry standardizes how telemetry is produced and shipped. Correlation, storage, and investigation are still architecture decisions you have to make on purpose.
OpenTelemetry · Observability architecture · Telemetry pipelines 6 min read
Infrastructure health and user experience are different measurements. Why a wall of green panels can sit beside a bad day for users, and how to measure from where users stand.
Reliability engineering · Logs, metrics, traces, and profiling · Incident investigation 6 min read