Designing Telemetry Pipelines

Tue, 17 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Managing gNMI telemetry at scale is not just a configuration problem. It’s an ownership problem. Subscriptions change often. Targets come and go. Different teams care about different slices of the network. And when your collector fleet spans multiple pods serving hundreds of devices, the last thing you want is a design where updating a Kafka output triggers a rolling restart, or where scaling from 3 to 5 pods means touching your telemetry wiring.

Introducing gNMIc Operator

Sun, 08 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Today we’re releasing gNMIc Operator: A Kubernetes operator that brings cloud-native lifecycle management to gNMIc telemetry collectors. It’s been a long road to get here, and I want to share a bit of the backstory.

An idea almost 4 years in the making TODO list

The idea was always clear: gNMIc should not only be a powerful CLI tool, but also a scalable, production-grade telemetry collector that could be orchestrated alongside the rest of your infrastructure. That led to multiple improvements to gNMIc (Clustering, Target Loaders,…), but one of them was a bit more ambitious than the others: A gNMIc Kubernetes operator.

Telemetry on gNMIc Operator

Designing Telemetry Pipelines

Introducing gNMIc Operator

An idea almost 4 years in the making TODO list