In a Kongcast episode, Viktor interviewed Chinmay Gaikwad, a technical evangelist at Epsagon, to discuss the evolution of observability in microservices architectures. Gaikwad highlighted his background in software development and Epsagon's role as an observability platform that specializes in monitoring applications running in Kubernetes and serverless environments, particularly through distributed tracing. Over the past decade, there has been a significant shift from monolithic to microservices-based applications, as well as a cultural shift towards DevOps, where developers are now responsible for their code and its monitoring. Epsagon emerged during this microservices revolution, addressing the limitations of traditional observability methods like logs and metrics, which are insufficient for troubleshooting in a microservices context. The platform uses distributed tracing to connect user actions with specific microservices issues, thereby providing a comprehensive view of application performance and helping reduce troubleshooting time significantly. Epsagon supports various programming languages and low-code implementations, ensuring minimal impact on CPU and memory usage, and is particularly adept at monitoring serverless and Kubernetes applications.