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January 6, 2025

OpenTelemetry Weaver Via the official OTel GitHub organization: check out OpenTelemetry Weaver, a tool (written in Rust) that enables developers to easily...

December 30, 2024

Netflix and title launches On the Netflix Technology Blog, a new article was published: read Title Launch Observability at Netflix Scale where Varun Khaitan...

December 23, 2024

Monitoring Apache Kafka M. Cagri AKTAS wrote Monitoring Kafka Clusters: Setup Guide for JMX Exporter, Prometheus, and Grafana, a step-by-step tutorial to set...

December 16, 2024

OTel seeks feedback I hear some of you complaining about how complex OTel is or how bad the docs are. Here's your chance to change up things: until Jan 31...

December 9, 2024

Stripe's observability platform Via InfoQ: learn about how Stripe Rearchitects Its Observability Platform with Managed Prometheus and Grafana on AWS. Great...

November 25, 2024

Practical OpenTelemetry The talented Mr. Martin Thwaites gave a talk at NDC Oslo 2024 and I recommend to watch this ca. 1h recording of his talk up on...

November 18, 2024

Observability Day videos The video recordings of the Observability Day NA 2024 are now available via a YouTube playlist. Enjoy! Prom 3.0 Earlier this year,...

November 11, 2024

OpenTelemetry at KubeCon Via the official OpenTelemetry blog, read Severin Neumann's post Join us for OpenTelemetry Talks and Activities at KubeCon NA 2024...

November 4, 2024

prom-analytics-proxy Check out prom-analytics-proxy by Nicolas Takashi, a proxy application that sits between your Prometheus server and its clients. It...

October 28, 2024

The State of Profiling Exciting update via the OpenTelemetry blog: read The State of Profiling by Damien Mathieu, Pablo Baeyens, Felix Geisendörfer, Christos...

October 21, 2024

OTel docs usability survey OpenTelemetry's End-User Special Interest Group (SIG) is currently doing a docs usability survey. This survey, open until mid...

October 7, 2024

OTel Q&A Check out this OTel Q&A, a 44min YouTube video with Steven Swartz, platform engineer at Ripple. The conversation covers how OpenTelemetry is being...

September 30, 2024

OpenTelemetry journey OpenTelemetry Journey by Magsther is a really insightful article by an end-user. The author describes their OTel journey, covering...

September 23, 2024

Prometheus 3.0 Learn about the Prometheus 3.0 Beta release including new UI, OTel support, and many more things via the official Prometheus blog. Also, you...

September 9, 2024

Prometheus 3.0 Unveiled Check out Prometheus 3.0 Unveiled: PromCon Highlights with Julius Volz, another excellent OpenObservability Talks episode. Monitor...

September 2, 2024

Continuous observability In Continuous Observability: Shedding Light on CI/CD Pipelines the one and only Dotan Horovits shares insights about continuous...

August 26, 2024

OTel multilingual Via the OTel blog: the OpenTelemetry website goes multilingual. Severin Neumann reports that teams have started to translate the project's...

August 19, 2024

Prometheus compatibility Via the OpenTelemetry blog: Insights from the Prometheus Compatibility Survey by David Ashpole, provides details on the results....

August 12, 2024

React app OTel instrumentation Via the CNCF blog: Learn How to add OTel instrumentation to a React Native app from Jonathan Munz, Senior Software Engineer at...

OTel hands-on guide Via DZone, Eric D. Schabell published A Hands-On Guide to OpenTelemetry: Using Automatic Instrumentation. This short but useful article...

OpenSearch & OTel metrics Using OpenSearch to visualize metrics ingested with OpenTelemetry by Karsten Schnitter (SAP) is a really interesting blog post via...

Large logs with ClickHouse Nathan Ostgard and Javier Schoijet on Solving large logs with ClickHouse, an insight on how Embrace goes about this topic. Thanks...

OTel community day In OTel Community Day '24 Paige Cruz shared details about this awesome event, including sessions and learnings. Thanks a lot for the...

Troubleshooting target allocator Adriana Villela, o11y grand dame, wrote Tips for Troubleshooting the Target Allocator and if you're using the Kubernetes...

OTel updates First off: we now have a dedicated OpenTelemetry community at CNCF, you can learn about upcoming events, there. Further, the results of the...

OpenSearch at Chase UK Check out Eugene Tolbakov's talk Optimizing log management with AWS OpenSearch at Chase UK, a 33 min video recording up on YouTube....

OTel from 0 to 100 Hans Kristian Flaatten in OpenTelemetry from 0 to 100 on how the Norwegian Labour and Welfare Administration (NAV) adopted OTel....

Booking.com’s o11y platform Santanu Sahoo shared Events: The 4th pillar of Booking.com’s Observability platform where he describes Booking.com's proprietary...

New log parser for OTel collector In the post Introducing the new container log parser for OpenTelemetry Collector via the OpenTelemetry blog, Christos...

OTel operator Q&A Check out Adriana Villela post via the OpenTelemetry blog: Things You Might Not Have Known About the OpenTelemetry Operator - An OTel...

OTel overview Akanksha Rana wrote OpenTelemetry Is Shaping the Future of API Monitoring, a nice high-level intro into the project. OTel collector news Two...

EKS o11y If you're looking for an AWS-supported solution for Amazon EKS infrastructure observability that is using managed Prometheus and managed Grafana, I...

MetricsHub and OTel In Exploring the Landscape of Observability: OpenTelemetry, MetricsHub, and More Sentry Software's Bertrand Martin explores the...

OTel resource attributes In OpenTelemetry Resources: What they are, why you need them, and why they are awesome the one and only Michele Mancioppi of Dash0...

KubeCon EU 2024 videos The session recordings of the recent KubeCon EU 2024, including all the wonderful contributions from the observability space, are now...

OTel getting started survey If you're using or evaluating OpenTelemetry, please consider investing some 3 minutes to fill in the Getting Started Survey by...

Prometheus and OpenTelemetry At the recent KubeCon EU 2024, Reese Lee and Adriana Villela gave an excellent talk on Prometheus and OpenTelemetry: Better...

OTel support for profiling Via the CNCF blog: OpenTelemetry announces support for profiling, by the OpenTelemetry maintainers. More to come! RUM in Grafana...

Managed Prometheus insights Gustavo Pantuza, Rodrigo Moraes, and Samuel D’Aquino JR of VTEX together with my colleague José Augusto Ferronato wrote about how...

Getting started with otelsql Via the OpenTelemetry blog: check out Getting started with otelsql, the OpenTelemetry instrumentation for Go SQL, where Sam Xie...

Profiling Python with eBPF Check out Profiling Python with eBPF: A New Frontier in Performance Analysis, a 25 min video from Kemal Akkoyun's FOSDEM session....

February 26, 2024

Thanos query performance In Streamlining Long-Term Storage Query Performance for Metrics With Thanos Hélia Barroso shares hands-on tips. Thanks! Karpenter...

February 19, 2024

OpenTelemetry-native In OpenTelemetry-native: The future of Observability Mirko Novakovic, Michele Mancioppi, and Ben Blackmore of Dash0 make the case what...

February 12, 2024

FOSDEM 24 Check out the Monitoring & Observability devroom sessions of this year's FOSDEM with excellent content from "When Prometheus Met OpenTelemetry" to...

February 5, 2024

OTel collector survey If you're using the OpenTelemetry collector, please consider helping the SIG Collector to prioritize their work by investing a few...

January 29, 2024

Shopify’s blueprint Scaling Platform Engineering: Shopify’s Blueprint is another great OpenObservability Talks episode where host Dotan Horovits and Aparna...

January 22, 2024

OTel lessons learned In OpenTelemetry - Simplifying Observability Magnus Holmstrom from TomTom engineering shares their lessons learned from a Proof of...

January 15, 2024

Cloudflare's logging pipeline In An overview of Cloudflare's logging pipeline Colin Douch reports on how Cloudflare's Observability Platform team ships...

January 8, 2024

Happy New Year to you and welcome back to o11y.news! Revolution in o11y In Unveiling the Causal Revolution in Observability Andrew Mallaband writes about the...

December 25, 2023

OTel Q&A Check out the OTel Q&A Feat. Luiz Aoqui of HashiCorp up on YouTube and learn about challenges and wins when instrumenting a distributed system...