Tag: Observability

Kubernetes Events Monitoring using Open Telemetry And Loki

Introduction 

  • Kubernetes clusters are highly dynamic, and issues can appear at any time from pod scheduling failures to container crashes.  
  • Kubernetes events provide real-time insights into such problems, but managing and analysing these events at scale can be challenging. 
  • In this blog, we will learn how to monitor Kubernetes events using Open Telemetry Collector and visualize them in Grafana via Loki. 

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Stop Paying for Logs You Don’t Use: The FinTech Guide to Smart Observability

In the typical FinTech cloud bill, “Observability” is often the silent budget killer. It frequently ranks as the second or third largest infrastructure cost, trailing only compute and database storage. 

There is a consistent pattern across the industry: data is treated like a security blanket. The prevailing engineering philosophy operates on a fear-based principle: “Log everything, just in case.” 

The result is a staggering inefficiency. Organizations pay premium storage rates for terabytes of data that no human will ever read. 

In a high-volume FinTech environment processing millions of transactions daily, this isn’t just “overhead”—it is a drag on OpEx. It is time to stop treating observability as an unavoidable tax and start treating it as an asset class that requires active management.  Continue reading “Stop Paying for Logs You Don’t Use: The FinTech Guide to Smart Observability”

Compliance as a Code: The End of Audit Panic

It’s 9:00 AM on a Monday. The notification lands: “External Audit starts in 10 days.” 

For most engineering teams, this triggers a predictable chaos: 

  • Feature Freeze: All innovation stops. 
  • The Scavenger Hunt: Your best engineers stop coding and start digging through logs to find evidence that Incident #402 was patched correctly. 
  • The Screenshot Factory: Senior Architects spend hours taking screenshots of AWS configurations to prove encryption is “On.” 

It is expensive, demoralizing, and ironically – it doesn’t actually make you secure.  Continue reading “Compliance as a Code: The End of Audit Panic”

Fintech Shadow Failure | Your App is Up, But is Your Business?

Do you remember the viral Twitter storm that hit a leading investment platform recently? 

A user claimed they invested in a Mutual Fund. Their bank account was debited. The app dashboard showed a green tick and even generated a Folio Number. To the user (and the app’s frontend), the transaction was a success. 

But days later, when they tried to redeem, the fund house said the money never arrived.  Continue reading “Fintech Shadow Failure | Your App is Up, But is Your Business?”

How Fintech Companies Can Reduce MTTR by 90% with Unified Observability

Every second of downtime can mean lost revenue, eroded customer trust and potential regulatory risks. For businesses built on digital transactions, reliability is the foundation of brand credibility. That’s why leading FinTech enterprises are turning to unified observability – an integrated, insight-driven approach that dramatically reduces MTTR (Mean Time to Recovery) and ensures systems stay resilient in real time. 

Unified observability is a strategic enabler for digital performance and operational excellence. By transforming how FinTech organizations monitor, detect and resolve incidents, it helps them achieve up to 90% faster recovery times – a game changing leap in service reliability and customer experience.  Continue reading “How Fintech Companies Can Reduce MTTR by 90% with Unified Observability”