Sawmills AI has introduced a smart telemetry data management platform aimed at reducing costs and improving data quality for enterprise observability. By acting as a middleware layer that uses AI and ML to optimize telemetry data before it reaches vendors like Datadog and Splunk, Sawmills helps companies manage data efficiently, retain data sovereignty, and reduce unnecessary data processing costs.
OpenTelemetry, a Cloud Native Computing Foundation incubating project, helps software engineers collect and analyze data about system and application performance. Created from the merger of OpenTracing and OpenCensus in 2019, it addresses the challenges of observability in large-scale systems, especially with the rise of Kubernetes. The article discusses its rapid adoption, current challenges, and future innovations like profiling signals.
