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Jun 20, 2025
TechBeyond Observability: Real-time Debugging in the age of cloud native
Tldr: Most observability vendors are collecting data to surface insights later. CtrlB, through MCP and live instrumentation, enables asking new questions on the fly, something traditional observability just doesn’t accommodate. In short, Live debugging isn’t talked about enough in observability…
Adarsh Srivastava
Co-Founder / CEO
Jun 25, 2025
TechThe Cloud Dilemma: Balancing Observability at Scale
Modern engineering teams face a fundamental tension: cloud observability promises deep insight, but achieving it often forces trade-offs. Such dilemmas can hamper visibility or agility unless you rethink the architecture. CtrlB’s unified observability data lake is designed to eliminate the…
Adarsh Srivastava
Co-Founder / CEO
Jun 23, 2025
TechControl Plane: One Plane To Control Them All
Modern cloud environments generate massive volumes of telemetry (logs, metrics, traces) from every service and host. Each tool often requires its agent (e.g., Fluent Bit, Prometheus exporter, Splunk UF), which leads to the deployment and configuration of dozens or hundreds of collectors. In…
Pradyuman
Senior Software Engineer
Jun 6, 2025
TechThe Role of AI in Observability: Hype or Hope?
Applications today aren’t just a few servers with predictable traffic; they’re made up of hundreds of moving parts, spread across clouds, running on Kubernetes, and changing constantly. Observability has always been about one thing: clarity. But in the age of microservices, Kubernetes, and…
Adarsh Srivastava
Co-Founder / CEO
May 30, 2025
TechObservability Is Not Just Three Pillars
We’ve all heard it: Observability has three pillars: logs, metrics, and traces. That’s how you know it was a marketing person. Somewhere along the way, someone even decided Observability needed a versioning system. And if you’ve been around long enough, you’ve also heard we’re in “Observability…
Adarsh Srivastava
Co-Founder / CEO
Jun 11, 2025
TechHow To Turn Log Noise Into Real Signals
Logs are loud. Your systems shouldn’t be. In any production system, logs are everywhere: APIs, background workers, frontend proxies, and downstream services. And when they all start shouting at once? The hard part of observability isn’t getting logs in or storing them, it’s making sense of them…
Adarsh Srivastava
Co-Founder / CEO
May 24, 2025
TechMicroservices Logging: The Power of Distributed Tracing
When teams transitioned from monoliths to microservices, debugging didn’t become easier; it became messier. Every service now generates its own logs. However, when a single user request traverses six different services across various containers or clusters, those logs do not naturally connect. You…
Adarsh Srivastava
Co-Founder / CEO
May 15, 2025
TechWhy Disk-Less Data Lakes Are the Future
Let’s face it, working with logs and large-scale data systems can be a real grind. If you’ve ever stared at a spinning loader bar after hitting “search” or wondered why your storage bill looks like a phone number, you’re not alone. The tools we’ve used for years just aren’t keeping up. Traditional…
Adarsh Srivastava
Co-Founder / CEO
May 10, 2025
TechFrom S3 Chaos to Unified Insights
Observability is a growing cost centre for most engineering teams. The more you scale, the more logs you generate. And while storage has gotten cheaper, most observability tools haven’t kept up. To save money, many teams send logs to cold storage like S3 after a few days. It’s cheap, sure, but not…
Adarsh Srivastava
Co-Founder / CEO
May 7, 2025
TechLogs as Data: Why CtrlB Treats Raw Logs Like a Data Lake
In today’s cloud-native world, logs have grown beyond simple debugging tools; they’re now a valuable source of deep operational insight. At CtrlB, we see things differently. Logs are not just debugging artefacts; they are raw, untapped data. And we treat them with the same design principles you’d…
Adarsh Srivastava
Co-Founder / CEO
Jun 3, 2024
TechTips to save egress cloud costs
In today's cloud-driven world, managing costs is a critical aspect of running an efficient and profitable business. One of the often overlooked yet significant components of cloud expenditure is egress costs—charges incurred when data is transferred out of the cloud provider's network to another…
Adarsh Srivastava
Co-Founder / CEO
May 24, 2024
TechHow to route Kubernetes logs using FluentD?
Logs are critical for understanding what is occurring inside your Kubernetes cluster. Even while most apps come with a native logging mechanism, users in distributed and containerized environments (such as Kubernetes) will benefit from a centralized logging solution. That is because they must…
Adarsh Srivastava
Co-Founder / CEO
May 14, 2024
TechPower of Observability Pipelines: Understanding Their Role and Impact on Organisational Efficiency
Introduction The observability pipeline is a pivotal instrument in the modern digital landscape, orchestrating the seamless flow of telemetry data by aggregating, processing, and routing it effectively. Its multifaceted role extends across crucial domains like observability, security, and…
Adarsh Srivastava
Co-Founder / CEO
May 10, 2024
TechUnraveling the Mysteries of Digital Footprints: Understanding Traces in the Digital World
Introduction In the vast expanse of the digital realm, traces echo the essence of reality, mirroring its significance. They encapsulate the intricate dance of capturing and documenting the essence of application execution. These traces serve as invaluable guides, illuminating the path toward…
Pradyuman
Senior Software Engineer
May 7, 2024
TechCracking the Code: Understanding High Cardinality in Metrics
Introduction In our increasingly data-driven landscape, metrics serve as invaluable guides, offering intricate insights into the performance of systems and processes. They empower us to make well-informed decisions, driving efficiency and innovation across various domains. However, the true power…
Pradyuman
Senior Software Engineer
Jan 2, 2024
TechWhy are legacy observability solutions so expensive?
In the realm of modern system management, observability has emerged as a crucial concept, enabling organizations to gain deep insights into the performance and behavior of their applications and infrastructure. However, despite its undeniable benefits, it often comes with a hefty price tag. Today…
Adarsh Srivastava
Co-Founder / CEO
Apr 30, 2024
TechThe High Costs of Observability: Uncovering the Burden on Modern Systems
Unveiling the Expense of Observability Having immersed myself in this domain for more than three years, I’ve continually pondered the enigma of observability’s steep costs. Is it truly necessary for observability tools to incur such significant expenses in both operation and upkeep? In my quest…
Pradyuman
Senior Software Engineer
Apr 1, 2024
TechWhen should you prefer CtrlB over self-hosting Elastic or Loki?
In the landscape of log management solutions, the choices can seem endless, each with its own set of advantages and drawbacks. Among these options, self-hosted platforms like Elastic and Loki have gained significant traction, offering users control and customization over their logging…
Adarsh Srivastava
Co-Founder / CEO
Mar 12, 2024
TechWhy archiving old data is a bad idea?
The idea of runaway expenses may give you the chills if you handle massive amounts of log data. The expense of storing your hot data is too high, and accessing your cold storage is too challenging. So now you have to make tradeoffs like reducing visibility into your older logs to save some bucks.…
Adarsh Srivastava
Co-Founder / CEO
Feb 14, 2024
TechSeparating storage and compute - holy grail to cut down costs
Conventional databases are engineered to minimize data transport and query latency by distributing computational tasks across local nodes. This storage-compute connected design becomes problematic as data quantities and needs for real-time analysis increase. In a business environment where "cost"…
Adarsh Srivastava
Co-Founder / CEO
Jan 3, 2024
Techhello world
Hi folks, Just wanted to type << hello world >> and announce that we are building something very interesting to help you cut down your observability bills. Stay tuned!
Adarsh Srivastava
Co-Founder / CEO