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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
November 21, 2025 at 4:32 PM
November 11, 2025 at 5:15 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...
November 10, 2025 at 10:07 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..."
November 6, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Log analysis never dies - Gonzo keeps on showing the way!
October 29, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Talking #Kubecon monitoring, some Gonzo open source TUI log monitoring, and continuous AI + observability distillation
October 28, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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
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
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
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
September 3, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Spinal Tap - Stonehenge ft. Elton John (Official Video)
YouTube video by SpinalTapVEVO
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August 5, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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
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...
techstrong.tv
April 11, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Observability. Control it. Shape it. Fix it. Continuously. @controltheory.bsky.social
March 18, 2025 at 8:31 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
January 23, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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
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
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
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
A few deep thoughts and bon mots from another #Kubecon in the books - from snow to #OpenTelemetry
November 20, 2024 at 4:00 PM
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