Check your inbox for a confirmation email where you can adjust your preferences and even join additional groups. 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.