Genevieve Cross, Author at SUSE Communities

October 6, 2025 6:20 pm

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What Is Observability Architecture, and How Do You Build It?

Modern infrastructure spans cloud, on-premises and edge environments. With that scale comes a large and steady stream of metrics, events, logs and traces. Unified observability helps organizations bring that telemetry under control — ensuring it supports both operational performance and long-term resilience. A sound architecture embeds governance and correlation throughout the telemetry pipeline. This approach […]

By: Genevieve Cross

October 3, 2025 7:11 am

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Using eBPF in Kubernetes for Improved Observability and Security

eBPF Kubernetes integration represents a revolutionary approach to monitoring and securing containerized environments. Extended Berkeley Packet Filter (eBPF) allows running isolated programs within the operating system kernel, extending OS abilities without loading new modules or modifying its source code. This kernel-level access provides unprecedented visibility into your Kubernetes clusters, enabling comprehensive monitoring of network traffic, […]

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By: Genevieve Cross

October 3, 2025 6:53 am

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From Reactive to Proactive: Building a Winning Observability Strategy

Observability complexity is climbing as cloud environments multiply and signals stay siloed. In chasing root causes, many IT teams toggle between incompatible tools and juggle multiple dashboards. Even the most experienced professionals can feel stuck in slow, reactive processes. An observability strategy can move your organization in a better direction. A well-articulated strategy defines how […]

By: Genevieve Cross

September 29, 2025 7:03 am

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Observability as a Service: Why It’s Crucial for DevOps

Tool sprawl, audit load and budget volatility are now common aspects of operating modern infrastructure. As environments stretch across multiple clouds and on-premises systems, achieving consistent visibility becomes harder — especially when each team works with different tools and telemetry models. Observability as a service (OaaS) offers a salient alternative. A managed approach to observability […]

By: Genevieve Cross

September 22, 2025 6:36 am

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Which Kubernetes Metrics Should You Be Tracking?

Kubernetes metrics provide critical visibility into cluster health, resource utilization and application performance. Understanding which metrics to track helps IT operations teams identify bottlenecks, optimize resource allocation and maintain reliable containerized workloads. This comprehensive guide explores the essential Kubernetes metrics you should monitor, why collection is challenging and how to implement effective monitoring strategies for […]

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By: Genevieve Cross

August 16, 2025 7:51 am

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Implementing Observability Solutions in Legacy Systems

Legacy systems form the backbone of many enterprises, powering critical business operations that companies depend on daily. However, integrating modern observability solutions with these older infrastructures presents unique challenges that IT operations teams must navigate carefully. This guide provides comprehensive strategies for overcoming integration hurdles and successfully implementing observability in legacy environments. Why […]

By: Genevieve Cross

August 15, 2025 6:27 am

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Log Aggregation: Understanding How It Works and Why You Should Use It

Modern IT systems generate a constant stream of diagnostic, security and performance data. Capturing and interpreting these records is essential for maintaining reliability, meeting compliance goals and staying ahead of emerging operational risks. Log aggregation plays a central role in the interpretation step. Without aggregation, enterprises can collect logs, but they can’t interpret or […]

By: Genevieve Cross

July 25, 2025 6:58 pm

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MTTD: An In-Depth Overview About What It Is and How to Improve It

What Is MTTD? Mean time to detect, or simply MTTD, is the average time it takes to discover an incident that led to a failure. In other words, it's the number of hours spent between a failure happening and its discovery. Software engineers make use of metrics to measure how well they're performing. There […]

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By: Genevieve Cross

July 22, 2025 7:00 am

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SIGKILL vs SIGTERM: A Developer’s Guide to Process Termination

As developers, managing how your applications shut down or handle interruptions is crucial, especially when dealing with Linux systems, containers or Kubernetes. Understanding the different signals that can terminate a process is essential for maintaining smooth and predictable application behavior. In this blog, we’ll explore two of the most important signals—SIGKILL […]

Categories: Corporate, SUSE Blog, SUSE Observability