Elena Kuznetsova

Elena Kuznetsova

Head of Engineering

15 years of experience in developing large-scale distributed systems and managing remote cross-functional teams.

Articles by Elena Kuznetsova

Closer to the question — April 3 release: logs, dashboards, and kernel-level signals

Release: 2026-04-03 - Closer to the question: notes from the April 3 release

Notes from an April 2026 release: the logs page redrawn with a collapsible filter sidebar and resizable columns, Lighthouse split onto its own tab in URL monitoring, an AI dashboard agent that reads its own rendered output and revises itself, and an observability agent that now records packet drops, DNS query shape, TCP round-trip time, and syslog alongside the application-protocol view.

Around a slow query — March 17 release: concurrent requests, offline EXPLAIN, deduplicated logs

Release: 2026-03-17 - Around a slow query: notes from the March 17 release

Notes from a March 2026 release: more context around a slow query in the platform — concurrent HTTP requests matched by interval overlap, an offline SQL Explain analyzer, and a cross-pod comparison toggle — plus log deduplication, request profiling on the OTLP pipeline, and resilient handling of malformed spans in the agent.

Two ways to draw a dashboard — March 3 release: generated dashboards, model fallback, hybrid log search

Release: 2026-03-03 - Two ways to draw a dashboard: notes from a March release

Notes from a March 2026 release: AI-generated dashboards with a visualization linter and cross-provider model fallback, three hand-built dashboards for APM, pod restarts and deployments, and a hybrid full-text log search powered by Manticore.

Three more places to look — Feb 9 release: tree-search investigations, ingress dashboards, URL monitoring

Release: 2026-02-09 - Three more places to look: notes from a February release

Notes from a February 2026 release: a tree-search investigation mode, dedicated ingress-controller dashboards with throttling and scheduling delay, and synthetic URL monitoring from outside the cluster.