PULSE understands search clusters not just as infrastructure, but as living systems | Ep 133

What if managing your search infrastructure didn’t feel like flying blind? In this episode, we sit down with the CEO of @BigDataBoutique , the team behind Pulse, a cutting-edge platform for proactive search cluster monitoring and maintenance. We talk about the pain points of running Elasticsearch or OpenSearch at scale, the hidden costs of poor observability, and how Pulse aims to give DevOps teams the visibility and confidence they need to keep systems stable, scalable, and secure. If you work with search infrastructure, care about monitoring, or just want to hear a story about building a high-impact observability product, this one’s for you. Running Elasticsearch or OpenSearch in production often means flying blind when things break: - Which node is failing? - Is it a query problem or indexing overload? - Why are latencies spiking out of nowhere? - Are we about to hit a resource ceiling, or are we already past it? Pulse is built from the ground up to understand search clusters — not just as infrastructure, but as living systems. It offers: ✅ Proactive Monitoring – Know before things go wrong. 📈 Health Reports – Assess your cluster’s performance with clarity. ⚠️ Root Cause Analysis – Go beyond symptoms and fix the core issue. 📊 Anomaly Detection – Surface problems even before they trigger alerts. 🛠️ Actionable Recommendations – Get guided next steps, not just metrics. Pulse puts you in control of your search cluster monitoring and maintenance by providing proactive monitoring and support, health assessment reports, actionable recommendations, alerting, and root cause analysis for alerts; anomaly detection and more. ▬▬▬▬▬▬ 🔔 @cloudnativefm 🔔 ▬▬▬▬▬▬ On this episode, Itamar underscores OpenTelemetry as the foundational pillar of modern observability. We dove deep with Adriana Villela as she unpacked the core concepts: What exactly is OpenTelemetry? and How does it collect, propagate, and export your application’s telemetry data? If you’re curious about tying together metrics, traces, and logs into a unified view of your architecture, this conversation is a must-watch. Tune in to learn how OpenTelemetry works under the hood and why it’s poised to transform the way we understand and optimize software at scale. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pz1rYVFr-6Q ▬▬▬▬▬▬ 🔗 About BigDataBoutique 🔗 ▬▬▬▬▬▬ 🌏 https://bigdataboutique.com/ 🤔 PULSE: https://pulse.support/ 🎬 What is Pulse: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/4Qp8_cMP99s @BigDataBoutique ▬▬▬▬▬▬ 🤝 Book a Call 🤝 ▬▬▬▬▬▬ If you'd like to be our next guest, schedule a convenient time slot via https://calendly.com/saimsafder14/30min. We'll discuss further details. Alternatively, you can reach out to me via Twitter or LinkedIn (details below). ▬▬▬▬▬▬ 👋 Contact me 👋 ▬▬▬▬▬▬ ➡ Twitter: https://twitter.com/cloudnativeboy ➡ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/saim-safder ▬▬▬▬▬▬ 🔔 Other Channels 🔔 ▬▬▬▬▬▬ 🎤 Cloud Native Islamabad: @CloudNativeIslamabad ▬▬▬▬▬▬ ⏱️ Chapters ⏱️ ▬▬▬▬▬▬ 0:00 Agenda 2:00 Welcoming Itamar 👋 4:10 Biggest signals + pain point to build Pulse? 10:00 ElasticSearch + OpenSearch Observability challenges? 13:00 Pulse for Dev/SRE/DeVOps 15:10 Pulse Transitioning + Integration with existing toolchain? 20:00 Role of search Infra for AI-driven development + Pulse Onboarding experience 22:50 Watch Ep 114 on OpenTelemetry 23:45 Where to run Pulse (Pre or Post Kubernetes Infra) 25:30 Customer base for BigDataBotique 27:00 What's next for Pulse? 28:00 Quick Demo 28:25 Key takeaways 29:00 Stay synced with the pulse - until our next chat! 🔔