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We Stuck Minecraft on a Kubernetes Cluster and Observed it with Open Source

Oct 8, 2026 By Coroot In Coroot
Why did we do this? Not important: jump to 1:31 to see the Pis. TL;DR: We stuck Minecraft on kubernetes running on 4 Raspberry Pis in a 3D-Printed case, and monitored it with open source observability. Huge thanks to Percona DBA Ivan Zaitsev for putting the demo together for Percona University, Montevideo. Coroot automatically collects and visualizes all your telemetry data: logs, metrics, traces, profiles, and a complete map of your services. With the complete context of eBPF, it can diagnose the exact cause of an incident in seconds, and show you the exact commands to fix it.
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Coroot at KCD Argentina

Oct 7, 2026 By Alexander Lamberton In Coroot
Kubernetes Community Days (KCD) Argentina brought together the vibrant technology communities of Buenos Aires for in-depth technical talks, SRE workshops, and an amazing opportunity to connect with fellow experts in cloud technology. Coroot had a great time participating, and we extend our thanks to all the SREs, DBAs, and DevOps engineers who stopped by the booth to discuss their observability experience.
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Coroot at Nerdearla & Percona University

Sep 30, 2026 By Alexander Lamberton In Coroot
In September 2026, Coroot headed off to South America for three events: Percona University, Nerdearla, and KCD Argentina. Percona University was a great opportunity to connect with the local open source database community in Montevideo, Uruguay. Hosted by Coroot partner Percona, the free educational event covered a full day of entertaining talks on AI, observability, and emerging database tech.
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Comprehensive Postgres observability: is your database healthy, and will it stay that way?

Jul 31, 2026 By Nikolay Sivko In Coroot
A Postgres database is one of the most complex pieces of software you run. It stores your data durably so a power loss doesn't lose a committed transaction. It hands out real transactions while thousands of queries fight over the same rows. It stays available when a node dies, lets you rewind to a point in time after someone drops the wrong table, and constantly tunes itself with background jobs. Two questions matter about all of that machinery: is it healthy right now, and will it stay healthy?
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Reproducing split brain on CloudNativePG

Jul 29, 2026 By Nikolay Sivko In Coroot
We run Postgres under an operator for automatic failover. That is a promise about what happens during a failure, so the only way to know you have it is to cause the failure and watch. The docs tell you what should happen. A config review tells you which knobs are set. Neither tells you how long an isolated primary keeps accepting writes after its replacement has been promoted, and that number decides whether a failover is clean or leaves you with two versions of your data.
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It was surprisingly hard to break CloudNativePG replication

Jul 27, 2026 By Nikolay Sivko In Coroot
I wanted a Postgres replica that falls behind its primary. Sounds easy. It wasn't. Every time I cut the replica off from the primary, its lag jumped for a moment and then dropped right back to zero. It just would not stay behind. Chasing down why turned into a fun little tour of how a Postgres standby keeps itself alive, and what CloudNativePG quietly sets up behind the scenes.
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Let's break autovacuum in Postgres: reproducing failures to make it observable

Jul 21, 2026 By Nikolay Sivko In Coroot
Autovacuum is one of those Postgres background jobs that quietly keeps your database healthy. It cleans up the dead row versions that every UPDATE and DELETE leaves behind, and it keeps the database away from a hard transaction-ID limit that would take it offline. Most of the time you don't think about it, because it just works.
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The hard part of AI root cause analysis is no longer the model

Jun 30, 2026 By Nikolay Sivko In Coroot
Every few weeks someone tells me root cause analysis is a solved problem now: pipe your telemetry into an LLM, let it tell you what broke. I wish it were that easy. After years on this, I think "can AI do RCA?" is the wrong question, because doing RCA with an LLM is really two separate jobs, and the answer is different for each. They break in completely different ways, so it's worth pulling them apart.
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Observability on Windows, before eBPF is production-ready

Jun 23, 2026 By Nikolay Sivko In Coroot
No large enterprise runs a single stack. A shiny new Kubernetes cluster sits right next to a Windows Server box that has quietly run the billing system for a decade without missing a beat. Both keep the business running. Both deserve the same visibility. Linux runs most server workloads, and Coroot grew up there. Our open-source node-agent uses eBPF to collect metrics, logs, traces, and profiles, with no code changes. But "most" is not "all".
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Zero-config Go heap profiling

Apr 27, 2026 By Nikolay Sivko In Coroot
Coroot's node-agent already collects CPU profiles for any process on the node using eBPF, with zero integration from the application side. For Java, we dynamically inject async-profiler into the JVM to get memory and lock profiles. But Go processes were still a blind spot for non-CPU profiling unless the app exposed a pprof endpoint and the cluster-agent scraped it. We wanted the same zero-config experience for Go heap profiles. This post is about how we got there.
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