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Clay Smith
Personal blog · monitoring2.substack.comsystemsai
Clay Smith writes Monitoring Monitoring, a personal blog at monitoring2.substack.com about systems and ai. Since 2019, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-07-14, and you can follow it by feed.
A newsletter about monitoring and observability startups. Kind of meta.
What Hacker News says?
This adds to some interestsing acquisition activity in this area: Splunk, for example, just acquired Flowmill (also focusing on eBPF + observability). https://techcrunch.com/2020/11/24/splunk-acquires-network-ob... [blatantly promoting my substack] Been following this area about a year, first wrote about some of startups using eBPF here in late 2019: https://monitoring2.substack.com/p/ebpf-a-new-bff-for-observ...
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on “New Relic to open-source Pixie’s eBPF observability platform”Submitted Big Prometheus: Thanos, Cortex, M3DB and VictoriaMetrics at Scale as a story · 65 points
HN discussionSubmitted AI agents invade observability: snake oil or the future of SRE? as a story · 47 points
HN discussionSubmitted Observability Pipelines at Kubecon as a story · 46 points
HN discussionSubmitted Where are all those monitoring startups now? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Service Meshes, Kiali, and Continuous Verification as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Coding and Tracing Workflow Remix (Feat. Dark) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Large Language Model Observability as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Chaos, Complexity, and Microservice Catalogs as a story · 1 points
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