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    The hard part of AI root cause analysis is no longer the model
    Engineering

    The hard part of AI root cause analysis is no longer the model

    We ran one real incident through eleven LLMs. The reasoning turned out to be the easy part; the real challenge is the harness that feeds the model the right context.

    Nikolay SivkoNikolay Sivko
    Jun 30, 2026·10 min read
    Observability on Windows, before eBPF is ready
    Engineering

    Observability on Windows, before eBPF is production-ready

    Coroot's agent now runs on Windows. The story of building it on ETW instead of eBPF: what came easy, what was hard, and what we left for later.

    Nikolay SivkoNikolay Sivko
    Jun 23, 2026·12 min read
    Zero-config Go heap profiling
    Engineering

    Zero-config Go heap profiling

    How we added continuous Go heap profiling to coroot-node-agent without requiring any code changes, pprof endpoints, or annotations, by reading runtime.mbuckets directly from process memory.

    Nikolay SivkoNikolay Sivko
    Apr 27, 2026·13 min read
    Profiling Java apps: breaking things to prove it works
    Engineering

    Profiling Java apps: breaking things to prove it works

    We added async-profiler support to Coroot for Java CPU, memory, and lock contention profiling with no code changes—then broke things to prove it works.

    Nikolay SivkoNikolay Sivko
    Apr 3, 2026·7 min read
    Making encrypted Java traffic observable with eBPF
    Engineering

    Making encrypted Java traffic observable with eBPF

    Learn how Coroot makes encrypted Java traffic observable by combining a lightweight Java agent with eBPF uprobes—no code changes, no sidecars.

    Nikolay SivkoNikolay Sivko
    Mar 23, 2026·6 min read
    Instrumenting Rust TLS with eBPF
    Engineering

    Instrumenting Rust TLS with eBPF

    Learn how to capture plaintext from rustls using eBPF uprobes—no code changes—and make encrypted Rust traffic fully observable with Coroot.

    Nikolay SivkoNikolay Sivko
    Mar 17, 2026·4 min read
    Let's make alerting great again
    Engineering

    Let's make alerting great again

    Coroot delivers preconfigured, symptom-based alerts from inspections, logs, Kubernetes events, and PromQL—with minimal noise and zero setup toil.

    Nikolay SivkoNikolay Sivko
    Feb 26, 2026·6 min read
    How to Reduce Your Cloud Costs with Coroot
    Engineering

    How to Reduce Your Cloud Costs with Coroot

    Learn how Coroot maps raw infrastructure costs to individual applications so you can identify waste and cut your cloud bill.

    Alexander LambertonAlexander Lamberton
    Nov 26, 2025·7 min read
    Monitoring a Docker Homelab with Open Source
    Engineering

    Monitoring a Docker Homelab with Open Source

    A community walkthrough of setting up Coroot on Rocky Linux to monitor a Docker homelab, using ClickHouse for storage and eBPF for telemetry.

    Arie Van Den HeuvelArie Van Den Heuvel
    Nov 20, 2025·6 min read
    Memory stall: the agony before OOM
    Engineering

    Memory stall: the agony before OOM

    Learn how Linux PSI reveals the hidden slowdown before the OOM killer strikes, and how Coroot uses it to detect memory stalls in containers.

    Nikolay SivkoNikolay Sivko
    Sep 23, 2025·3 min read
    Instrumenting the Node.js event loop with eBPF
    Engineering

    Instrumenting the Node.js event loop with eBPF

    Learn how Coroot uses eBPF to instrument the Node.js event loop and detect hidden latency caused by event loop lag—no code changes required.

    Nikolay SivkoNikolay Sivko
    Sep 19, 2025·5 min read
    Using GreptimeDB as Prometheus Data Lake in Coroot
    Open Source Spotlights

    Using GreptimeDB as Prometheus Data Lake in Coroot

    Learn how to use GreptimeDB as a Prometheus-compatible, cost-efficient long-term metrics backend in Coroot.

    Yiran CuiYiran Cui
    Aug 7, 2025·4 min read

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