Lightning Talk: Retire the Sidecar: Why Observability Needs To Ride up Front
Lightningat Platform Engineering Day North America 2025 · on Monday, 2025-11-10· at 17:15· Building B | Level 5 | Thomas Murphy Ballroom 2-3·
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Claims observability belongs at the platform edge not in sidecars and shows a working edge pipeline that inspects traffic, drops chatty coreDNS, reroutes debug and trace to a cold path, and samples only 10% of info logs before export. Uses OTEL, Fluent/syslog/HTTP collectors, a metadata enrichment layer and an AI agent that flags debug on Kong and noisy ClickHouse streams to cut storage and egress costs; the prototype runs and reduces ingest by observable percentages.
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