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OTel updates Two updates from the official OTel blog that you may want to take a look at: In The Humans of OpenTelemetry - KubeCon EU 2025, you can learn...

Purposeful instrumentation The one and only Juraci Paixão Kröhling wrote Purposeful Instrumentation, providing guidance and sharing best practices on a...

OSS o11y hands-on Production-Ready Observability with Prometheus, Loki & Grafana by Neamul Kabir Emon is a hands-on contribution on how to set up and use an...

OTel at KubeCon Check out the recordings of OpenTelemetry talks at KubeCon EU 2025 up on YouTube, kudos to Alex Boten. Observability costs How Much Should I...

Monitoring challenges In OpenTelemetry: Solving Modern Application Monitoring Challenges Ibrahim Cisse motivates monitoring challenges and shows how OTel can...

OTel hands-on Even more OpenTelemetry - Kubernetes special by Nicolas Fränkel is a hands-on deep dive of using OTel in a containerized environment, including...

OTel in practice I found Wiard van Rij's OpenTelemetry in Practice: Useful, But Not the Endgame for Users insightful. Thanks for the write-up! Thoughts on...

Dash0's SIFT The good folks from Dash0 launched something exciting. Check out: Introducing SIFT: The next stage of Observability where CEO Mirko Novakovic...

OTTL playground OpenTelemetry Transformation Language (OTTL) is OTel's domain-specific programming language allowing you to process data with OpenTelemetry-...

OTel at KubeCon EU 2025 If you're around at KubeCon EU 2025 in London, beginning of April, consider to Join us for OpenTelemetry Talks and Activities. In...

Shopify’s o11y journey Dotan Horovits and Elijah McPherson in another great episode of OpenObservability Talks: check out Shopify’s Journey to Planet-Scale...

February 24, 2025

Preemptive observability An interesting take: check out Digma Preemptive Observability, a 3 min video up on YouTube to learn more how to detect issues in...

February 10, 2025

Prometheus collection methods In OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, and More: Which Is Better for Metrics Collection and Propagation? Zhu Jiekun compares different...

February 3, 2025

FOSDEM 2025 Past weekend was FOSDEM weekend and there were tons of interesting talks, my two favs from the Monitoring and Observability devroom: Prometheus...

January 27, 2025

OTel Go instrumentation Via the official OTel blog: Alibaba, Datadog, and Quesma Join Forces on Go Compile-Time Instrumentations. Exciting! Monitoring Apache...

January 27, 2025

OTel Go instrumentation Via the official OTel blog: Alibaba, Datadog, and Quesma Join Forces on Go Compile-Time Instrumentations. Exciting! Monitoring Apache...

January 20, 2025

Observability challenge Check out the Application Observability Code Challenges by Cees Bos. Thanks a lot for putting this together, what a wonderful idea!...

January 13, 2025

Extending OpenTelemetry Extending OpenTelemetry to Pinpoint Code Elements: Our Journey to Close the Gap, by Anton Grübel, introduces an OpenTelemetry...

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...