Understanding Kubernetes metrics: Best practices for effective monitoring
Kubernetes metrics show cluster activity. You need them to manage Kubernetes clusters, nodes, and applications. Without them, it also makes it harder to find problems and improve performance. This post will explain what Kubernetes metrics are,…
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2026 Co-located Event Deep Dive: Observability Day
Observability Day has become a cornerstone gathering for the cloud native observability community. The event evolved from FluentCon at KubeCon Europe 2022 in Valencia and Open Observability Day at KubeCon North America 2022, bringing together maintainers…
CNCF Unveils KubeCon + CloudNativeCon India 2026 Schedule
Third annual India event to spotlight AI, observability, platform engineering and more MUMBAI, India, 11 March, 2026 – The Cloud Native Computing Foundation® (CNCF®), which builds sustainable ecosystems for cloud native software, today announced the conference…
Making Harbor production-ready: Essential considerations for deployment
Harbor is an open-source container registry that secures artifacts with policies and role-based access control, ensuring images are scanned for vulnerabilities and signed as trusted. To learn more about Harbor and how to deploy it on…
Observability Summit North America returns May 21–22 in Minneapolis, convening practitioners, contributors, and engineers to advance open observability standards and practices Key Highlights SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 18, 2026—The Cloud Native Computing Foundation® (CNCF®), which builds sustainable…
How an enterprise-grade AI copilot company saved 45% on cloud costs, achieved 95% cost attribution, and prevented over 90 anomalies “We needed a FinOps automation platform that could track and act on routine engineering tasks, allowing…
CNCF celebrates successful mentees from LFX Mentorship 2025 Term 3
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation is thrilled to congratulate the 2025 Term 3 (September – November) CNCF LFX Mentorship Program mentees who have successfully completed the program! This term saw a fantastic cohort of mentees working…
OpenTelemetry Collector vs agent: How to choose the right telemetry approach
As cloud-native architectures continue to mature, observability has become a foundational requirement rather than an optional add-on. According to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, OpenTelemetry continues to grow its contributor base and remains the second highest…
Platform engineering maintenance pitfalls and smart strategies to stay ahead
Platform engineering is a discipline that aims to increase the productivity of software engineering teams by designing, building, and maintaining internal platforms that abstract underlying infrastructure complexity and provide self-service capabilities. Kubernetes-based platforms are often complex…
New CNCF Annual Cloud Native Survey reveals near-universal adoption of Kubernetes Key highlights: SAN FRANCISCO, CA, January 20, 2026 —The Cloud Native Computing Foundation® (CNCF®), which builds sustainable ecosystems for cloud native software, today released its…