Welcome to another edition of Road to KubeCon, where we’re tracking the major movements in the Kubernetes and cloud native ecosystem on the path to KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA 2026, happening Nov. 9–12 in Salt Lake City, Utah.
This week, we look at how cloud-native teams are putting observability to work. There’s progress on OpenTelemetry and Prometheus interoperability, a migration spanning 100,000 hosts, and new data on the costs and benefits of monitoring AI systems. Plus, HPE’s latest Gartner recognition, agent governance updates, and a father-and-son story from KubeCon India.
On Wednesday, HPE announced it had been named a Leader in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Infrastructure Platform Consumption Services for the second consecutive year.
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) is a presenting sponsor of Road to KubeCon. HPE Software helps IT organizations modernize infrastructure, streamline operations, and accelerate AI initiatives across hybrid, multi-vendor environments.
GreenLake, HPE’s cloud operations platform, helps teams monitor resource consumption, secure data, and manage infrastructure across data centers and private and public clouds. HPE points to recent additions, including agentic AI-powered operations, as part of the platform’s development.
Varma Kunaparaju, senior vice president and general manager of cloudops software and platform at HPE, says in the announcement: “We are building the operating model and platform for the agentic enterprise, giving customers the ability to simplify operations, govern intelligently, continuously optimize, and modernize without sacrificing choice.”
OpenTelemetry (OTel) and Prometheus are widely used for cloud-native monitoring and observability, often side by side. A new survey looks at how well that combination works.
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