Capability-as-a-Service: Self-Hosted Observability That Feels Like SaaS
Ask a platform team what they want from observability and the answer is simple: it should just be there, like any SaaS. Build it on open source, though, and you are suddenly running eight separate projects, each one a job of its own to operate. We have made that kind of operational pain disappear before, one tool at a time, with Kubernetes operators. But observability is not one tool, it is a capability made of many, and no single operator covers the work of turning that pile into one coherent service. So, what does it actually take to get the SaaS feeling from self-hosted OSS? Building on that same operator model, I share a pattern we call Capability-as-a-Service, and the open-source reference implementation we built to prove it works. This is for platform engineers and SREs who run their own observability and want it to feel bought while staying theirs.
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Dominik Schmidlegiantswarm.ioDominik Schmidle is a Product Lead at Giant Swarm, driving the company’s (agentic) platform strategy. He’s on a mission to simplify developers’ lives through intuitive platforms, built for humans and their agents alike. He’s a published author, CNCF Platform Engineering TCG contributor, and recent speaking highlights include KubeCon EU’s Platform Engineering Day, the WeAreDevelopers World Congress, and Cloud Native Summit Munich.