The Week in Green Software: The Green Side of Observability

This Week in Green Software, Kate is joined by Diana Todea to explore how observability can become more sustainable by designing systems with efficiency in mind. They discuss practical ways to cut costs and carbon emissions, avoid telemetry bloat, and build greener observability pipelines from the start. Treating observability as an architectural decision is key to creating more efficient and sustainable software systems.

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• Kate Goldenring: LinkedIn | Website
• Diana Todea: LinkedIn | Website

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Resources:

• The Green Side of Observability - Diana Todea | DevOps.com [01:01]
• Retroactive Sampling with OpenTelemetry | KubeCon Amsterdam 2026 [10:09]
• Observability Is a Mesh, Not a Braid - Diana Todea | Medium [24:54]
• Grafana Mimir [29:47]
• VictoriaMetrics [30:03]
• SCI for Open Telemetry | GSF [33:44]
• Software Carbon Intensity (SCI) | GSF [34:00]
• Green Observability: What Needs to Shuffle in Open Source? - Diana Todea | SCALE [34:41]

Events:

• Sustainable Tech in the Age of AI 29 June 18:00 - Hamburg, Germany [40:59]
• FREE UKSG webinar: Minimising the environmental harm of AI through principle thinking 30 June 13:00 BST - UK, Virtual [41:15]
• Reducing Cost and Carbon 2 July 18:00 Frankfurt, Germany [41:39]

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