Code RED

Edge Delta founder and CEO Ozan Unlu joins Dash0's Mirko Novakovic to discuss the rise of telemetry pipelines and why this once-niche idea is now critical infrastructure. Ozan shares how his experience at Microsoft and Sumo Logic inspired him to challenge centralized observability models. They cover data tiering, pipeline-based architectures and the growing role of AI in curating massive telemetry streams.

Juraci Paixão Kröhling, OpenTelemetry governing board member, joins Dash0's Mirko Novakovic for a deep dive into the evolution of observability. From the JBoss and Jaeger early days to his new startup OllyGarden, Juraci shares how OpenTelemetry is reshaping the way we monitor distributed systems. They explore the challenges of tracing adoption, the semantics around spans and transactions, and why logs are still dominant (but perhaps not for long). Juraci also details his journey from engineer to entrepreneur and the future of observability in an AI-first world.

Langfuse CEO Marc Klingen joins Dash0's Mirko Novakovic to explore the evolving challenges of building and scaling LLM-powered applications. They unpack how Langfuse went from a YC pivot to becoming an open-source platform used by thousands of teams. The conversation dives deep into LLM-specific tracing, evaluation, and cross-functional debugging, highlighting how Langfuse is redefining the developer workflow around AI evaluation, prompt management, and production monitoring.

Lumigo CEO Erez Berkner joins Dash0's Mirko Novakovic to discuss the evolution of cloud observability and the critical role of AI in debugging modern architectures. They dive into the challenges of tracing serverless and hybrid environments, why traditional observability tools weren't built for developers, and how AI-driven insights are shaping the future of automated troubleshooting.

ilert CEO Birol Yildiz joins Dash0's Mirko Novakovic to break down how ilert helps enterprises manage incidents more effectively. They explore why AI is a ‘must' for some aspects of incident response, the role of technical redundancies in ensuring reliability, and what defines a strong MTTA and MTTR in the enterprise world.

Dash0's own CTO, Ben Blackmore, joins Mirko Novakovic to discuss the evolution of observability at Dash0. They dive into why they're focused on building RUM capability, how they invented their AI-powered logging tool, and where they see more opportunities to save customers time with better data. The two founders also reflect on their 13-year journey together, including what it's like to transition from engineer to manager in a fast-moving startup.

Rootly's Co-founder and CEO, JJ Tang, joins Dash0's Mirko Novakovic to discuss how Rootly streamlines enterprise incident management. They explore how JJ's experience at Instacart shaped Rootly, his vision for AI's capabilities in the monitoring and incident response world, and how he's building a tool designed to save teams time.

IBM's Vice President of Automation Product Management, Bill Lobig, joins Dash0's Mirko Novakovic to discuss how Instana has evolved with AI-powered tools, OpenTelemetry integration, and enhanced on-premises monitoring. They explore the future of observability, Instana's focus on vulnerability management, and innovative ways to track monitoring costs.

Embrace CEO Eric Futoran chats with Dash0's Mirko Novakovic about why mobile is often overlooked in observability, how their platform exceeds crash detection, and the challenges of processing dense real-user monitoring data.

Christine Yen, CEO of Honeycomb.io, joins Dash0's Mirko Novakovic to discuss the code red moment that inspired Honeycomb, the importance and coining of the term "high cardinality data", how the modern understanding of observability was formed, and more.

Alois Reitbauer, Chief Technology Strategist at Dynatrace, joins Dash0's Mirko Novakovic to discuss the role of open source standards in advancing the observability industry, even for vendors with proprietary solutions. They explore Dynatrace's AI capabilities, innovations like Keptn and OpenFeature, and the company's role in initiatives like OpenTelemetry.

Eli Cohen, co-founder and CEO of Helios, sits down with Dash0's Mirko Novakovic to discuss building a tool to help engineers prioritize code vulnerabilities, pivoting to the security space, how he sees developer-led security, and the Helios acquisition by Snyk.

Ben Sigelman, Co-Founder and CEO of Lightstep, joins Dash0's Mirko Novakovic to share his journey helping launch Dapper and Monarch at Google, a nightmare New Year's Day troubleshooting Google Weather, and how he views OpenTelemetry and observability evolving alongside AI and LLMs.

Checkly CEO Hannes Lenke joins Dash0's Mirko Novakovic to discuss his “monitoring as code” philosophy, how Checkly lets developers take ownership over end user testing and his view on AI's role in the future of APM tools.

Akamas CEO and Co-Founder Luca Forni joins Dash0's Mirko Novakovic to break down how the tool evaluates and optimizes your full stack to create “mechanical symphony,” why performance beats cost savings every time, and how Akamas's AI improves cloud-native applications without ever touching their code.

Humanitec CEO Kaspar von Grünberg joins Dash0's Mirko Novakovic to break down the origins and importance of the Internal Developer Platform, when your engineering team should consider building an IDP and why platform engineer is a key job for the future.

Fiberplane founder and CEO Micha Hernandez van Leuffen joins Dash0's Mirko Novakovic to walk through his new API debugging tool, his view on metrics' role in observability and why he's investing in the ‘building blocks of tomorrow.'

Bicycle founder and CEO Bhaskar Sunkara joins Dash0's Mirko Novakovic to explore his origins at AppDynamics, how his new AI-driven tool transforms raw data into actionable business insights and how observability can be leveled up to the business tier and boost company success.

Coralogix CEO Ariel Assaraf join's Dash0's Mirko Novakovic to break down his team's engineer ownership model, how Coralogix has grown to serve as both a product and a flexible platform, and the future of OpenTelemetry in the observability industry.

Lightrun co-founder and CEO Ilan Peleg joins Dash0 CEO Mirko Novakovic to break down his tool's origin story, why he's all in on developer-focused observability and how engineers are mission critical to business success across the globe.

Venture Guides managing partner Ben Nye joins Dash0's Mirko Novakovic to reveal what he's looking for at his new $216M fund for early-stage infrastructure software, why app performance outweighs cost, and what makes monitoring tools marketable.

Instana co-founder and agent expert Fabian Lange is back together with Dash0 CEO Mirko Novakovic to break down what went wrong to cause CrowdStrike's massive worldwide outage, how they prevented rollout glitches at Instana and why giving your customers control prevents IT headaches.

Pioneer of index-free storage and co-founder of Humio Geeta Schmidt clues us in on Humio's product DNA, explains how observability overlaps with cybersecurity and reveals what she's looking for as a new industry investor.

Jonah Kowall is one of the most experienced observability leaders on the planet, and he joins Mirko Novakovic, CEO of Dash0, to talk how he built OpenTelemetry, how LLMs shortcut your troubleshooting, and the future of AI in observability. Jonah was an analyst at Gartner, and more recently built technologies at AppDynamics, Kentik, Logz.io, and Aiven while being a maintainer of Jaeger and CNCF projects.

On the flagship episode of Code RED, Mirko Novakovic, CEO of Dash0, chats with Michele Mancioppi, Dash0's head of product, about the origin of their passion for observability tools, how they compact data to lower customer costs, using OpenTelemetry to give your data context, and what they're building at Dash0.