observability news

2025-12-01

December 1, 2025

OpenSearch PPL Read Better observability, deeper insights: OpenSearch’s new Piped Processing Language capabilities by Anas Alkouz, Fanit Kolchina, and Ritvi...

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2025-11-24

November 24, 2025

Advanced network observability Amazon EKS introduced a set of advanced network observability features, providing you with dynamic visualizations including...

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2025-11-17

November 17, 2025

OTel releases Via the official OpenTelemetry blog: read Evolving OpenTelemetry's Stabilization and Release Practices to understand how the Governance...

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2025-11-10

November 10, 2025

OTel complex attributes Via the official OpenTelemetry blog: Announcing Support for Complex Attribute Types in OTel, by Liudmila Molkova, Robert Pajak, Trask...

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2025-11-03

November 3, 2025

Say pillars one more time … The one and only Charity Majors on How many pillars of observability can you fit on the head of a pin? As usual, both educating...

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2025-10-27

October 27, 2025

PromCon 2025 If you didn't watch the live stream, make sure to check out the video recordings of PromCon 2025: excellent content from Prom core to...

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2025-10-13

October 13, 2025

OTel pipeline for Kubernetes In Building a Unified OpenTelemetry Pipeline in Kubernetes Fatih Koç provides a hands-on walkthrough on this very relevant...

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2025-10-06

October 6, 2025

Buy vs build In the r/sre sub-reddit, I stumbled upon an interesting conversation, check out Observability choices 2025: Buy vs Build to learn about options...

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2025-09-29

September 29, 2025

DIY OTel collectors In Custom OpenTelemetry Collectors: Build, Run, and Manage at Scale, Adnan Rahic provides excellent guidance. Thanks for sharing! How to...

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2025-09-08

September 8, 2025

OTLP 101 Ayooluwa Isaiah of Dash0 is on a roll! Read What Is OTLP and Why It's the Future of Observability, an excellent mixture of theory and hands-on...

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2025-09-01

September 1, 2025

Metrics in OTel In What are metrics in OpenTelemetry: A Complete Guide, Neel Patel provides a very nice intro into OTel metrics, including lots of hands-on...

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2025-08-25

August 25, 2025

Cortex: efficient queries In Efficient Query Parallelism in Cortex with Dynamic Query Splitting my colleague Ahmed Hassan explores the motivations behind...

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2025-08-18

August 18, 2025

OpenSearch and OpenTelemetry In Diving deep into distributed microservices with OpenSearch and OpenTelemetrys my colleagues Shenoy Pratik Gurudatt and Adam...

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2025-08-11

August 11, 2025

OTel configuration gotchas Nicolas Fränkel strikes again: read OpenTelemetry configuration gotchas and learn about some good practices. Counting the cost of...

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2025-08-04

August 4, 2025

OTel survey Your opportunity to shape OTel's future: fill in the OTel Collector Follow-up Survey by upstream OTel. Likely effort is less than 3 minutes....

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2025-07-28

July 28, 2025

OTel pipelines On the topic of building telemetry pipelines with OTel, I have not one but two contributions this time. Check out Building Telemetry Pipelines...

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2025-07-21

July 21, 2025

Instrumentation choices The one and only Julius Volz with a somewhat spicy take: Why I recommend native Prometheus instrumentation over OpenTelemetry. I...

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2025-07-14

July 14, 2025

Application logging in Python Another great contribution from the Dash0 folks: read Application Logging in Python: Recipes for Observability by Ayooluwa...

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2025-07-07

July 7, 2025

OTel Java auto-instrumentation In OpenTelemetry Autoinstrumentation in Java Kasper Borg Nissen of Dash0 provides context on the topic, shows it in action,...

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2025-06-30

June 30, 2025

Applying OpenTelemetry Two video resources I can recommend, no matter if you're new to OTel or already have some experience: From the SREday Amsterdam 2025,...

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