The best Observability newsletters

A software engineer's blog covering hands-on lessons from building observability pipelines on ClickHouse, including the silent failure modes he encountered. It also offers personal essays and speculative writing on desktop UI design and the burden of constant smartphone connectivity.

Hands-on engineering posts from an observability and cloud-native consultancy, covering practical walkthroughs such as Ansible patching playbooks and building a retrieval-based website chat. It also announces its own tools, such as a public market cause-and-effect simulation graph.

Charity Majors writes about engineering team culture, psychological safety, and how teams should develop shared norms for AI use, drawing on research and her experience at Honeycomb. The newsletter also carries announcements of joint work with researcher Cat Hicks and related events.

Engineering blog from Acceldata sharing practical write-ups on their internal systems: adding forecasting and anomaly detection to VictoriaMetrics dashboards, diagnosing performance bottlenecks in a high-throughput Scala microservice, and designing a Kubernetes logging platform with Vector, Kafka and OpenSearch. Readers get concrete architecture and debugging walkthroughs from production experience.

A personal engineering blog by a software engineer working on observability and databases, covering hands-on experiments with developer tools, AI agents and hardware ideas. Readers get first-person technical write-ups, including a benchmark teardown with reproducible code.

A multi-part engineering series from Blueground's platform team on observability, covering when and why to use logs, APM and distributed tracing rather than tool-by-tool configuration. Readers get practical reasoning about what signals are worth capturing and how to debug production performance problems.

Software engineer Thomas Vitale writes practical technical tutorials on Java, Spring Boot and Spring AI, covering local AWS development and AI observability with OpenTelemetry, LangSmith and OpenLit. Readers get concrete configuration walkthroughs and insider context from a Spring AI maintainer.

Karl Stoney's personal blog about platform engineering, Kubernetes, Istio, Grafana and Prometheus, sharing hands-on fixes after breaking things. The sampled posts describe how he built an opinionated Copilot CLI and an autonomous AI PR review and work queue platform at Autotrader.

A vendor blog from an observability company covering OpenTelemetry tracing, AI agent observability and multi-agent design for debugging. It explains new platform features and shows practical patterns for monitoring and improving LLM agents.

A weekly newsletter on platform engineering that mixes community links with original commentary on topics like FinOps, observability costs, and AI agents. It draws on the author's own market guides and surveys to argue for what platform teams should own.

Kim Monzon's newsletter covers software engineering, from a open-source tool that automates local Grafana observability stacks to essays on why vibe-coded projects get abandoned and why founders should stop chasing domains. Readers get practical engineering walkthroughs mixed with opinionated takes on building software products.

RunReveal is a security log platform whose newsletter covers its conference takeaways, the company's acquisition by ClickHouse, and product how-tos such as masking PII in log pipelines. Readers get practical security data engineering guidance and company updates.

A practitioner's blog on platform engineering for Kubernetes, developer experience and agentic frameworks, with hands-on technical posts such as Spring AI observability with OpenTelemetry. The sampled issues include an announcement that email delivery is ending as the blog moves to GitHub Pages, with new posts announced on LinkedIn.