2022-03-14
HAProxy monitoring guide
In HAProxy Monitoring Guide: Important Metrics & Best Tools in 2022, Gaurav Yadav provides a good overview on tooling.
OpenTelemetry book
Alex Boten of Lightstep has published Cloud Native Observability with OpenTelemetry via Packt. Congrats, Alex!
Kibana in action
Set up a monitoring dashboard to view your Kubernetes pod logs by Shashank Srivastava is a nice overview on the topic.
React performance with Otel
In Measuring React performance with OpenTelemetry and Honeycomb Lily Chen provides a hands-on walkthrough. Excellent work, thank you!
CNCF o11y survey
The CNCF shared the results of the Cloud Native Observability Microsurvey with some interesting insights, no big surprises.
Otel in Cloud Spanner
Mohit Gulati and Mayank Khanwalker on Leveraging OpenTelemetry to democratize Cloud Spanner Observability, explaining the usage of their Otel receiver.
Prometheus histograms
Prometheus Histograms. Run that past me again? by Andy Kuszyk is a hands-on deep dive on the topic. Thanks a lot for the write-up!
SaaS observability
The fabulous Dotan Horovits strikes again, check out this episode of the OpenObservability Talks where he has Aviad Mizrachi (CTO & Co-Founder at Frontegg) as a guest: SaaS Observability Done Right.
McAfee’s CloudWatch case study
My colleague Kanishk Mahajan worked with McAfee’s Hashem Raslan and Anastasia Zamyshlyaeva to share How McAfee used Amazon CloudWatch to monitor a multi-PB data migration to Databricks on AWS. Interesting read!
That was it for this edition of the o11y newsletter. Feel free to share news items with me via Twitter—DMs are open if you like to share something in private. Stay safe and hope to see you around next week!