Bob Quillin
@bobquillin.bsky.social
Co-founder/CEO ControlTheory - goin' fishing.
Take some open source Gonzo TUI, mix in some continuous AI with Dstl8 and talk to as many SREs and platform engineers as you can in 4 days - my takeaways from #KubeCon Atlanta - both the ground level and 20,000 ft views #observability #AIforSREs
Another #KubeCon has wrapped - deep thoughts and bon mots - learnings from SREs, the buzz on AI for SREs, the cloud-native to AI-native evolution and more.... www.controltheory.com/blog/what-hu... #observability #K8s
What Hundreds of SREs Said About the Future of Observability at KubeCon 2025
Explore the insights gathered from SREs at KubeCon 2025 about practical AI solutions for improved observability.
www.controltheory.com
November 21, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Take some open source Gonzo TUI, mix in some continuous AI with Dstl8 and talk to as many SREs and platform engineers as you can in 4 days - my takeaways from #KubeCon Atlanta - both the ground level and 20,000 ft views #observability #AIforSREs
Gonzo and @controltheory.bsky.social live at booth #1570 #Kubecon github.com/control-theo... @destari.bsky.social @jreeve.bsky.social
November 11, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Gonzo and @controltheory.bsky.social live at booth #1570 #Kubecon github.com/control-theo... @destari.bsky.social @jreeve.bsky.social
Gonzo is in the #Kubecon house - @controltheory.bsky.social booth #1570 - come by tomorrow and see it live plus his new buddies Dstl8 and Möbius AI github.com/control-theo...
November 10, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Gonzo is in the #Kubecon house - @controltheory.bsky.social booth #1570 - come by tomorrow and see it live plus his new buddies Dstl8 and Möbius AI github.com/control-theo...
Favorite snippet - "...Logs are the diary of your systems; timestamped sentences that tell stories of deployments, retries, and failures. Traditional tools treat them as records and line items, whereas Gonzo treats them as language..."
If logs are language and we have LLMs, agents, and distillation to manage them - maybe they *could* talk to us! #KubeCon www.controltheory.com/blog/find-th...
Find the Right Answers: Making Logs Conversational with Gonzo - Part 2
Transform your log analysis with Gonzo, the AI-driven tool that enhances clarity and observability - your logs can now talk to you.
www.controltheory.com
November 6, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Favorite snippet - "...Logs are the diary of your systems; timestamped sentences that tell stories of deployments, retries, and failures. Traditional tools treat them as records and line items, whereas Gonzo treats them as language..."
Log analysis never dies - Gonzo keeps on showing the way!
Why do we always look at logs in the end? Ask Gonzo! www.controltheory.com/blog/surface...
Surface the Right Insights: Why Logs Still Matter (and Why Now) - Part 1
Delve into effective log analysis strategies that help you manage telemetry data through distillation and diagnose issues without the hassle.
www.controltheory.com
October 29, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Log analysis never dies - Gonzo keeps on showing the way!
Talking #Kubecon monitoring, some Gonzo open source TUI log monitoring, and continuous AI + observability distillation
The old monitoring and observability model was top-heavy: collect everything → try to understand later.
We invert that triangle.
Edge Distillation → Correlation → Incident intelligence
Full @VMblog Q&A on what we’re bringing to #KubeCon
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We invert that triangle.
Edge Distillation → Correlation → Incident intelligence
Full @VMblog Q&A on what we’re bringing to #KubeCon
👇
bit.ly/4qwagAp
ControlTheory Unveils AI-Powered Observability Platform Dstl8 at KubeCon NA 2025: Edge Distillation and Continuous AI Transform Kubernetes Monitoring - VMblog QA : @VMblog
In this exclusive VMblog Q&A, Quillin discusses how continuous AI is reshaping the observability landscape, why edge intelligence matters for scaling Kubernetes, and what enterprises should be plannin...
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October 28, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Talking #Kubecon monitoring, some Gonzo open source TUI log monitoring, and continuous AI + observability distillation
Rocketing in popularity - this open source TUI turns your terminal into a real time log analyzer github.com/control-theo...
October 6, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Rocketing in popularity - this open source TUI turns your terminal into a real time log analyzer github.com/control-theo...
Got Loki @grafana.bsky.social logs? Looking to live tail them from your CLI in a terminal UI - check out this Gonzo blog from @jreeve.bsky.social @controltheory.bsky.social www.controltheory.com/blog/live-ta... #TUI
Live Tailing Grafana Loki Logs with Gonzo
Explore Loki Live Tailing with Gonzo, the terminal-based log viewer for real-time log monitoring and troubleshooting.
www.controltheory.com
September 23, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Got Loki @grafana.bsky.social logs? Looking to live tail them from your CLI in a terminal UI - check out this Gonzo blog from @jreeve.bsky.social @controltheory.bsky.social www.controltheory.com/blog/live-ta... #TUI
Live-tailing AWS CloudWatch logs into a real-time TUI - cool use case for Gonzo www.controltheory.com/blog/gonzo-a... @jreeve.bsky.social @destari.bsky.social #tui
Gonzo: A Better Way to Tail AWS CloudWatch Logs
Explore how to use aws logs tail for effective debugging across your Kubernetes and AWS CloudWatch Logs using Gonzo!
www.controltheory.com
September 10, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Live-tailing AWS CloudWatch logs into a real-time TUI - cool use case for Gonzo www.controltheory.com/blog/gonzo-a... @jreeve.bsky.social @destari.bsky.social #tui
AI SREs? AI for SREs? Check out my latest Observability Next newsletter www.linkedin.com/pulse/ai-sre...
AI SRE Is Trending. But Is It the Wrong Term?
The rise of AI SRE as a product category name sets a dangerous precedent—especially in such an early market. By leaping out of the gate as the “accepted” search term, it’s already snowballed into a fo...
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September 9, 2025 at 3:50 PM
AI SREs? AI for SREs? Check out my latest Observability Next newsletter www.linkedin.com/pulse/ai-sre...
Goin' gonzo for Gonzo - practical tools for SRE that leverage AI and connect seamlessly into everyday flow. An open source terminal tool for real-time log analysis! #TUI
Check out Gonzo - an open source, real-time log analysis terminal UI - popularity is growing with 900+ stars already on GitHub! www.controltheory.com/blog/why-we-... #TUI
Why We Made Gonzo: A Terminal Log Analyzer for Observability Next
Cut through the clutter with Gonzo log analysis. Enhance your observability and focus on what truly matters in logs.
www.controltheory.com
September 3, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Goin' gonzo for Gonzo - practical tools for SRE that leverage AI and connect seamlessly into everyday flow. An open source terminal tool for real-time log analysis! #TUI
This made my day www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WWT...
Spinal Tap - Stonehenge ft. Elton John (Official Video)
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August 5, 2025 at 7:23 PM
This made my day www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WWT...
Reposted by Bob Quillin
Starting soon #OpenO11ySummit #OTelDay - a must see, dude - ⚡ Lightning Talk: Taming Metric Cardinality: Practical Cost Reduction With the OpenTelemetry Collector @jreeve.bsky.social @destari.bsky.social
June 26, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Starting soon #OpenO11ySummit #OTelDay - a must see, dude - ⚡ Lightning Talk: Taming Metric Cardinality: Practical Cost Reduction With the OpenTelemetry Collector @jreeve.bsky.social @destari.bsky.social
Bringing controllability and feedback loops to observability - powered by #OpenTelemetry, elastic telemetry pipelines, and @controltheory.bsky.social techstrong.tv/videos/kubec...
Mastering Observability: Insights with Bob Quillin - KubeCon Europe 2025 - Techstrong TV
Bob Quillin of ControlTheory discusses the growing volume of telemetry data and its costs, highlighting the importance of intelligent data management. ControlTheory aims to enhance operational and ada...
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April 11, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Bringing controllability and feedback loops to observability - powered by #OpenTelemetry, elastic telemetry pipelines, and @controltheory.bsky.social techstrong.tv/videos/kubec...
Observability. Control it. Shape it. Fix it. Continuously. @controltheory.bsky.social
We are headed to London to help fix observability. Meet us there at #Kubecon Europe 2025 booth S732 - cost issues? RCA? MTTR? OTel? See ya there - learn more... www.controltheory.com/controltheor...
ControlTheory at KubeCon Europe 2025
Join ControlTheory at KubeCon Europe 2025 in London. Regain control of your observability. See us at booth S732
www.controltheory.com
March 18, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Observability. Control it. Shape it. Fix it. Continuously. @controltheory.bsky.social
Tail sampling with the OTel collector - the secret to unlocking the power (and value) of distributed traces - #observability @controltheory.bsky.social @jreeve.bsky.social
Using OTel collector for tail sampling distributed traces - powerful way to sample traces to find and keep the needles in your observability haystack - latest post by @controltheory.bsky.social CPO @jreeve.bsky.social www.controltheory.com/resources/ta...
Tail Sampling with the OTel Collector
Learn how tail sampling with the OTel collector can improve tracing insights and reduce costs, without switching observability providers.
www.controltheory.com
January 23, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Tail sampling with the OTel collector - the secret to unlocking the power (and value) of distributed traces - #observability @controltheory.bsky.social @jreeve.bsky.social
Reposted by Bob Quillin
Use OTel to route your telemetry to S3 and rehydrate when you need it - Another OTel in a Minute how-to by @controltheory.bsky.social CPO @jreeve.bsky.social #OpenTelemetry youtu.be/Q27CIa74rW4?...
Sending telemetry to (and rehydrating from) AWS S3 with the OTel Collector
YouTube video by ControlTheory
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January 16, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Use OTel to route your telemetry to S3 and rehydrate when you need it - Another OTel in a Minute how-to by @controltheory.bsky.social CPO @jreeve.bsky.social #OpenTelemetry youtu.be/Q27CIa74rW4?...
Reposted by Bob Quillin
How to use the #OpenTelemetry Remote Tap Processor to crack into your telemetry and look inside - great post by @jreeve.bsky.social www.controltheory.com/resources/ho...
How to Validate & Optimize Telemetry with the OpenTelemetry Remote Tap Processor - ControlTheory
Explore how to use the OpenTelemetry Remote Tap Processor to validate, inspect, and optimize logs, metrics and traces.
www.controltheory.com
December 19, 2024 at 5:13 PM
How to use the #OpenTelemetry Remote Tap Processor to crack into your telemetry and look inside - great post by @jreeve.bsky.social www.controltheory.com/resources/ho...
Reposted by Bob Quillin
You can re-hydrate telemetry from S3 with the OpenTelemetry collector, pretty slick!
Here’s a write-up from our CPO:
www.controltheory.com/resources/se...
#opentelemetry #o11y #aws
Here’s a write-up from our CPO:
www.controltheory.com/resources/se...
#opentelemetry #o11y #aws
Sending Telemetry to (& rehydrating from) AWS S3 with the OTel Collector - ControlTheory
Introduction Due to the high cost of ingesting/storing/indexing telemetry associated with many observability solution providers, we’ve noticed a trend across customers where they will restrict retenti...
www.controltheory.com
December 9, 2024 at 4:54 PM
You can re-hydrate telemetry from S3 with the OpenTelemetry collector, pretty slick!
Here’s a write-up from our CPO:
www.controltheory.com/resources/se...
#opentelemetry #o11y #aws
Here’s a write-up from our CPO:
www.controltheory.com/resources/se...
#opentelemetry #o11y #aws
A few deep thoughts and bon mots from another #Kubecon in the books - from snow to #OpenTelemetry
"Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end..." Another #KubeCon has come and gone - musings on #OpenTelemetry and where the last 11 years of #observability are leading us
www.controltheory.com/kubecon-2024...
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KubeCon 2024 - It’s a Wrap - ControlTheory
Last Friday brought about the close of another KubeCon. And in other news last week, we had snow! Though it was less startling than the snow in KubeCon Austin in 2017, it seemed like a reminder from K...
www.controltheory.com
November 20, 2024 at 4:00 PM
A few deep thoughts and bon mots from another #Kubecon in the books - from snow to #OpenTelemetry
Reposted by Bob Quillin
Shout out to all the @opentelemetry.io contributors - an impressive list from #kubecon last week!
November 19, 2024 at 3:52 PM
Shout out to all the @opentelemetry.io contributors - an impressive list from #kubecon last week!