Noah and Steve dig into observability! What is it? Why is it important? How do you use observability to get a handle on your troubleshooting?
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01:30 Theatre Remote - Glenn
13:00 Caller Dustin in TX
- Bank is blaming new ISP for no online bill pay
- Talk to the ISP
- Take machine from home to church
- Try tethering to your phone
- Try a VPN
- Could be multiple issues
28:00 Linux News Wire
- Linus Prediction
- BTRFS Kernel Improvements
- Habana Labs AI
- AMD DRM-Next
- Linux Foundation European Division
- Wolfi Undistribution
- 700% Rise in Malicious Activity
- Bipartisan Security Bill
- BigCode
- Fundraiser for Kdenlive
- Ventoy 1.0.80
- 0 A.D. Alpha 26
- Debian 12 Bookworm Installer
- Ubuntu Security Updates
30:00 Listener Responds to USB Port - Hank
- Try all the USB ports, including on the motherboard
32:00 Church Service Streaming - Jayson
- Scale Engine
- Low Price
- Live and On Demand
- "push streaming"
- RTMP Streams
- Your own CDN
- Resi
- Requires proprietary box
- VERY expensive
38:00 Main Segment
- Observability
- Figuring out what is going on in your system
- Observability is not Monitoring/Metrics
- 3 Parts - Collect, Monitor, Analyze
- You can't look for what you don't know
- Tracing
- Span - specific length of time in which something happens
- Traces tell you where the problem is
- Dynatrace, Sumo Logic
- Learn More
- Example Trace Diagram

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