TL;DR – After side‑by‑side testing on a 500 GB/7‑day workload, VictoriaLogs cut query latencies by 94 %, shrank storage by ≈40 %, and used < 50 % of the CPU & RAM we previously allocated to Loki. This post explains why we switched.

“Good communication” is one of those phrases everyone nods along to — until the incident hits, and suddenly comms unravel before your eyes.

So here’s what I actually mean when I say communication matters.

A high-throughput Java service was stalling. The culprit? Stop-the-World GC pauses were blocked by synchronous log writes to a busy disk.

pvc-autoresizer resizes PersistentVolumeClaims (PVCs) when the free amount of storage is below the threshold.

It queries the volume usage metrics from Prometheus that collects metrics from kubelet.

Terragrunt vs Terraform: Why I chose Terragrunt to eliminate code duplication, automate state management, orchestrate deployments, and follow pattern-level reuse

As applications grow, the question quickly shifts from what OTel can do to how we can deploy it effectively at scale. In this post, we’ll explore some deployment patterns for the OTel Collector!