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Monitor Kubernetes Hosts with OpenTelemetry

It’s 3 AM. API latency just spiked from 200ms to 2s. Alerts are firing, and users are frustrated. You SSH into the first server: top, free -h, iostat — nothing unusual. On to the next host. And the next. That’s how most of us learned to debug. The tools worked, and we got good at using them. But as infrastructure became distributed and dynamic, this approach started to break down. Modern monitoring needs more than SSH and top. It needs unified telemetry.

Densify Talks, CNCF, OpenAPI, and Kubernetes with Dan Ciruli from Nutanix

<span data-mce-type="bookmark" style="display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;" class="mce_SELRES_start"></span> Andrew Hillier sits down with Dan Ciruli, who leads the cloud native product management team at Nutanix.

14: CNCF, OpenAPI, and Kubernetes with Dan Ciruli from Nutanix

Andrew Hillier sits down with Dan Ciruli, who leads the cloud native product management team at Nutanix. Dan’s got some great stories from his days at Google—back when cloud native and Kubernetes were just getting started, in addition to the knowledge and wisdom he picked up along the way.

Why Organizations Choose Cycle for AI

The race on AI is heating up; the next generation of vibe coders and prompt engineers are entering the job market as we speak, and AI is the hottest line item on most IT budgets this year. Building the next great home automation software or adaptive learning platform with cutting-edge machine learning is great and all, but like all great software, it needs to start with the plumbing.

Kubernetes monitoring explained: Key metrics, labels, and best practices

Monitoring Kubernetes and containers doesn’t have to be overwhelming. In this video, we’ll break down the essential metrics you need to track, why labels are critical for container visibility, and the best practices for Kubernetes monitoring at scale. You’ll learn: How tools like Site24x7 simplify Kubernetes monitoring with auto-discovery, dashboards, anomaly detection, and forecasting. Whether you’re a DevOps engineer, SRE, or developer, this video gives you the practical knowledge to improve container monitoring and observability.

Kubernetes v1.34: What You Need to Know

Kubernetes v1.34, codenamed “Of Wind & Will (O’ WaW)”, brings a wide range of enhancements aimed at making clusters more efficient, secure, and easier to manage. This release delivers 58 enhancements with 23 graduating to Stable, 22 entering Beta, and 13 in Alpha, reflecting the platform’s continued maturation as enterprises scale their container orchestration needs.

#049 - The AI Translator: Using LLMs & MCP for K8s Operations & Self-Healing Infra with Alexei Le...

In this episode, Itiel Shwartz kicks off a series on MLOps, LLM, and GenAI in Kubernetes. Starting with Alexei Ledenev, who has over two decades in software development and deep experience in cloud architecture and distributed systems. He shares his journey from CoreOS Fleet to his current role on the Platform Team at Doit.