Mithun

Product @SigNozHQ

Reinventing myself and starting from scratch with a beginner mindset.

[Mithun @MithunArunan]

Simple writing is persuasive. It’s one of the most important lessons I learned early in my career.

In the AI era, it’s even more important to reinforce this principle instead of relying on LLMs to generate polished and bloated content.

[Pranay Prateek @pranay01]

24k+ stars on GitHub, 500+ customers, 7K+ strong slack community — want to help supercharge it? We’re hiring Forward Deployed Engineers at SigNoz 🚀

If you are an engineer with an interest in speaking with customers and helping them be successful, this role may just be for you

We’re an open-source, OpenTelemetry-native observability platform (traces + metrics + logs). YC-backed. Fully remote — no offices.

What you’ll do

- Design and implement observability in customer infra: OTel instrumentation, tailored dashboards, and guide customers with your expertise
- Write clear integration guides, troubleshooting docs, and best practices which engineers can follow
- Spot patterns across customers and feed them back into product defaults, templates, and tooling

You’ll thrive in this role if you
- Have 2–6 years in DevOps, SRE, Platform or Solutions Engineering
- Are comfortable with containers, Kubernetes and at least one cloud (AWS/GCP/Azure)
- Enjoy hands-on coding

This is probably not for you if you
- Prefer working mostly in isolation instead of partnering closely with customer engineering teams
- Don’t enjoy writing documentation
- Not keen on hands-on implementation work

Why SigNoz
- Build a global dev-infra product with a 200+ contributor open-source community
- Work with high ownership and talk to users daily
- YC-backed, supported by top Bay Area VCs, and remote-first from day one
Interested?

Apply via the link below.

Know someone who’d be a great fit?
🙏 Please tag them.

[Pranay Prateek @pranay01]

US-based DevRel & Growth folks — want to help build the open-source observability standard? 🚀

We are growing SigNoz’s US presence and I am hiring our next two foundational teammates:

1) Developer Relations Engineer (US)
Own demos, docs, and community for OpenTelemetry-native observability. Create hands-on guides, give talks, and turn field feedback into product wins.

2) Growth Marketing (US)
Run scrappy experiments across content, SEO, Reddit/HN/LinkedIn, and email. measure what matters, and turn developer interest into activation.

Why SigNoz
- Open-source, OTel-first; used by engineers worldwide
- High ownership, high impact—your work will be the face of SigNoz in the US
- Remote-US friendly

If you love teaching through code, telling clear product stories, and building with community—let’s talk.

DM me or tag someone amazing. ✨

[Pranay Prateek @pranay01]

we just open-sourced the SigNoz MCP Server — let Claude, Cursor, and your agents talk to your observability stack 🚀

AI assistants are great at reasoning, but they’re blind without context. With the SigNoz MCP Server, your assistant can securely fetch the right observability data on demand — inside your IDE or coding assistant — to debug faster, review incidents, and answer on-call questions in plain English.

Some sample questions you can answer now and give context to your AI agent about:

“What services were active in the last 24h?”

“Which alert rules are firing right now?”

“Show me the dashboard related to kafka.”

but this is just the tip of the iceberg, you essentially have all your observability data available through natural language query now

📖 Why open source?

SigNoz is built on open standards (OpenTelemetry). Open sourcing our MCP server continues our commitment to open source & open standards.

🙏 Try it / contribute

- Works with SigNoz Cloud or self-hosted (grab an API key from Workspace Settings)

- PRs welcome — especially new tools (logs/traces queries, runbook helpers, etc.) and example prompts

Excited to see what our community starts building with it 🥳

[Robert Scoble @Scobleizer]

18 years with an autistic kid.

Our son, Milan, turns 18 today.

When he was two a doctor told us we might never get to talk to him. Several he goes to school with aren't verbal.

He talks today, but is a man of few words. When he speaks, especially if I'm angry about something, he always has a funny way to look at it. Several times, in those situations, he'll say "daddy you need a vacation." Or "daddy you need some anger management." Always gets me to laugh. Our family has a bunch of Milan's sayings that entertain them, like that.

When we first heard he was autistic and would have severe problems in life we saw many of our dreams disappear.

He isn't the kind of person to play baseball with you. Or, even, sit down and watch a movie with you (he walks out of most of them before they get half way).

But he puts in the work, every week we go see his speech therapist, same one we've seen for 13 years once a week. Which requires two hours of driving.

Looking back he has taught me so many things that I never would have thought I'd have to learn.

Like that the school system is not on parents side. We've had to hire lawyers and other specialists to make sure he gets the help he needs.

If you bring a life into this world, be ready to be taught lessons you never signed up for.

I love him so. I'm proud of him, and proud of myself. 16 years ago I couldn't see how we would get here.

If you have a young autistic kid, or some other kid who has special needs, you know just what I'm saying.

I see you, and know that it gets better. Mostly because you'll change yourself. Which isn't easy, but then life isn't always easy.

[Pranay Prateek @pranay01]

🚀 23k+ ⭐ on GitHub, 6k+ members in Slack — want to help supercharge it? We’re hiring Forward Deployed Engineers at SigNoz

We’re an open-source, OpenTelemetry-native observability platform (traces + metrics + logs). YC-backed. Fully remote—no offices.

What you’ll do

🔧 Design & implement observability with customers: OTel instrumentation, tailored dashboards, real-world optimization

📝 Write crisp integration guides, troubleshooting docs & best practices engineers actually follow

💻 Help instrument customer codebases (Go/Python/Node/Java), setup Otel agents, ensure successful rollouts

🧩 Spot patterns across deployments and feed them into product defaults, templates & tooling

You’ll thrive if you

🛠️ Have 2–6 yrs in DevOps/SRE/Platform/Solutions Eng

🐳 Know containers, Kubernetes, IaC, and at least one cloud (AWS/GCP/Azure)

💻 Enjoy hands-on coding across stacks

✍️ Care about clear, actionable technical writing

Not a fit if you

🙈 Prefer working in isolation vs partnering with engineers

📝 Avoid documentation

🚫 Shy away from hands-on implementation

Why SigNoz

🌍 Build a global dev-infra product with a 200+ contributor OSS community

⚡ High ownership, talk to users daily

🌱 Backed by YC & top Bay Area VCs, remote-first

Interested?

— Apply via the links below

Know someone great?

-- Please tag them 🙏

[Pranay Prateek @pranay01]

SigNoz is growing 🚀 and we are hiring Product Designers to help us build absolute world class product experience

We build the open-source, OpenTelemetry-native APM used by thousands of engineers across the world

What you’ll do

- Shape end-to-end workflows: dashboards, alerting, search/filtering, customization
- Design data-heavy UIs & visualizations that make complex systems feel simple
- Partner with Product, Eng & DevRel; ship fast, iterate in public

What you’ll bring
- Figma chops: components, prototypes, systems thinking
- Experience simplifying complex/technical workflows
- Empathy for developer tools & real-world use cases

Why SigNoz
🗺️ Remote (India) + async, high-trust culture
🌏 Open source with 23,000+ GitHub stars & 6,000+ community members
🚀 Ship where it matters: thousands of devs use SigNoz daily

Interested?
- Comment “design” and I’ll DM the JD
- Or apply via the link in the comments
- Know someone great? Please tag them 🙏

And if you are lucky, your work may get reviewed by top design experts in the world 😝

[Mithun @MithunArunan]

Finding all these gems from @JamesClear's 3-2-1 newsletter.

[Mithun @MithunArunan]

Your success depends on the risks you take.

Your survival depends on the risks you avoid.

[Mithun @MithunArunan]

Success is being excited to go to work and being excited to come home

[Pranay Prateek @pranay01]

🔥 The future of observability is open & transparent

And it’s already here — powered by open source code & open standards like OpenTelemetry.

Loved reading these rave reviews from our users — this one from Raphael Cohen nails it:

- Standards-based & future-proof instrumentation
- Full control over your data & costs
- Faster onboarding for engineers with a unified, simpler stack

When you combine open standards with open source, you get flexibility, and speed — without vendor lock-in.

what's stopping you from moving to the new world?

[Mithun @MithunArunan]

@henloitsjoyce Shoe dog, Snow crash, Exhalation ...

[Mithun @MithunArunan]

Do you really care?

If yes, then what's stopping you? If no, stop wasting time & energy.

[Pranay Prateek @pranay01]

The world runs on money.

Many people despise money and in some way find it to be not the right representative of value.

But it is the clearest indicator of value which humanity had developed till now. It is not perfect in any way, but other measures are even worse.

If someone pays you $X for your product/service, it means they value your product/service more than $X. Otherwise, they won't make that transaction.

Simple.

Other measures of value are worse.

Say you use someone's time as a depiction of value. You still need to value how each person values their time, and how others value their time. Which again boils down to pegging each person's time to a common unit.

Money (more specifically fiat currencies) as a unit of value is more robust, as there are financial markets which keep on pegging different currencies against each other. So, everyone in the world as an inherent value of $1 to them.

This makes doing transactions much easier.

You quote a price, and the buyer either pays it or doesn't make the transaction.

For startups, that's why revenue is so important. It is the most robust measure that you are creating value.

And, bonus point - you can feed yourself and your team with this revenue :)

[Pranay Prateek @pranay01]

Not sure whether to feel good or bad about it

When competitors run ads on your brand keyword, does that mean we have arrived 😝

This is google search result for "signoz" in bay area..

[Pranay Prateek @pranay01]

Kubecon London is ready to welcome attendees to the excellent venue just beside river Thames

Team SigNoz will also be presenting 3 talks at the event focusing on different aspects of Observability and monitoring backstage with OpenTelemetry

If you are around and will be attending Kubecon, do visit our Booth S631.

Would love to say hi 👋 and share latest on what we are building at SigNoz

[Pranay Prateek @pranay01]

Kubecon London is happening from April 1 - April 4 and is the ultimate cloud native event and attracts developers from across the globe

I have some free passes for the event and if you think this event would be useful to you, do DM me 🙂

Preference will be to SigNoz users and potential partners

See you soon!

[Mithun @MithunArunan]

I need this!

[Andrew D. Huberman, Ph.D. @hubermanlab]

The Isolator (“first introduced in the July 1925 edition of the American Physical Society magazine”), as a tool to help limit distractions by narrowing field of view and insulating against external sounds. Challenges focusing anyone?