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    Insights on observability, monitoring, and engineering best practices from the Coroot team.

    Chaos testing a Postgres cluster managed by CloudNativePG
    Engineering

    Chaos testing a Postgres cluster managed by CloudNativePG

    Learn how to chaos test a PostgreSQL cluster managed by CloudNativePG on Kubernetes and see how Coroot surfaces failure modes and validates resilience.

    Nikolay SivkoNikolay Sivko
    Jan 16, 2025·8 min read
    Essential Observability with Coroot
    Engineering

    Essential Observability with Coroot

    Coroot provides the essential monitoring tools to resolve and prevent problems across your infrastructure—without the complexity or cost of bloated platforms.

    Peter ZaitsevPeter Zaitsev
    Jan 13, 2025·6 min read
    Getting started with Coroot: Concepts and Terminology
    Engineering

    Getting started with Coroot: Concepts and Terminology

    A beginner's guide to the core Coroot concepts and terminology—applications, inspections, SLOs, and service maps explained.

    Peter ZaitsevPeter Zaitsev
    Jan 9, 2025·11 min read
    Supercharging FerretDB Performance with Coroot: A Success Story
    Case Studies

    Supercharging FerretDB Performance with Coroot: A Success Story

    See how one team used Coroot to identify FerretDB performance bottlenecks and directly improve application throughput.

    Ana GilesAna Giles
    Dec 26, 2024·3 min read
    Introducing Coroot v1.6: Enhancements for Multi-Tenancy, Kubernetes, High Availability, and More!
    Product Updates

    Introducing Coroot v1.6: Enhancements for Multi-Tenancy, Kubernetes, High Availability, and More!

    Coroot v1.6 introduces multi-tenancy, a Kubernetes operator, high availability, OpenShift support, and a redesigned documentation site.

    Nikolay SivkoNikolay Sivko
    Dec 13, 2024·4 min read
    Emergency Observability with Coroot
    Engineering

    Emergency Observability with Coroot

    Learn how to quickly deploy Coroot during an active outage to pinpoint root causes using service maps, logs, and real-time health insights.

    Peter ZaitsevPeter Zaitsev
    Nov 20, 2024·3 min read
    Observability:  Self Hosted vs Fully Managed –  Exploring the choices
    Engineering

    Observability:  Self Hosted vs Fully Managed –  Exploring the choices

    Explore the trade-offs between self-hosted and fully managed observability on cost, control, flexibility, and operational overhead.

    Peter ZaitsevPeter Zaitsev
    Nov 14, 2024·8 min read
    140x cheaper than Datadog: why storing observability data on-prem makes sense
    Engineering

    140x cheaper than Datadog: why storing observability data on-prem makes sense

    Coroot is an open source alternative to Datadog with transparent pricing, much lower storage costs, full Kubernetes support, and seamless Grafana integration.

    Nikolay SivkoNikolay Sivko
    Nov 8, 2024·8 min read
    Zero-instrumentation observability based on eBPF
    News

    Zero-instrumentation observability based on eBPF

    Learn how zero-instrumentation eBPF observability gives you deep infrastructure insights without adding any overhead to your applications.

    Peter ZaitsevPeter Zaitsev
    Aug 23, 2024·2 min read
    eBPF Linux Command Line Tools
    Engineering

    eBPF Linux Command Line Tools

    Explore a collection of eBPF-powered Linux command line tools that surface complex performance issues directly from the kernel.

    Peter ZaitsevPeter Zaitsev
    Aug 22, 2024·2 min read
    filetop – eBPF Command Line Tools
    Engineering

    filetop – eBPF Command Line Tools

    Monitor disk I/O in real-time with filetop, an eBPF tool in BCC that tracks file activity at the kernel level.

    Peter ZaitsevPeter Zaitsev
    Aug 22, 2024·4 min read
    gethostlatency – eBPF Command Line Tools
    Engineering

    gethostlatency – eBPF Command Line Tools

    Measure DNS and host resolution latency with gethostlatency in BCC and bpftrace to diagnose slow lookups.

    Peter ZaitsevPeter Zaitsev
    Aug 22, 2024·2 min read

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