DevOps Paradox DOP 335: Stop Building Dashboards and Start Getting Answers With Coroot
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Jan 28, 2026 Peter Zaitsev, co-founder of Coroot and observability entrepreneur, talks about opinionated, self-hosted monitoring that favors simplicity. He covers automatic instrumentation with eBPF, deterministic root-cause analysis, AI-assisted recommendations, and how Coroot fits alongside other tools. The conversation also touches licensing, bootstrapped funding, deployment options, and tradeoffs in telemetry and retention.
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Opinionated Observability Beats Dashboard Overload
- Coroot targets teams that want answers, not endless dashboards.
- The product is opinionated to reduce cognitive overload and deliver quick results.
eBPF Enables Low-Friction Visibility
- Coroot uses eBPF to gain visibility without code changes and avoid heavy OpenTelemetry rollout.
- eBPF provides safe, high-performance kernel-level hooks compared to custom kernel modules.
Install The Agent To Auto-Instrument
- Install the Coroot agent to auto-instrument containers and VMs using eBPF.
- The agent requires no application configuration and detects services, logs, and traffic automatically.