2022-08-08
Open observability day
ICYMI: the Open Observability Day, covering everything from Prometheus & OpenMetrics to Fluentd & Fluent Bit to OpenTelemetry will take place on Oct 24th and guess what: the CfP ends today. I’m honored to serve on the PC and looking forward to your many submissions 8-)
Monitorama retro
Troy Howard of Sumo Logic reflecting on Monitorama 2022: the good, the bad and the beautiful (Part 1) which I appreciate since I wasn’t able to be there in person.
RoI of o11y
How Observability Can Get Expensive, and How to Fix It is another great episode of my favorite (English) podcast. This time around Dotan Horovits has the one and only Ben Sigelman (again?) as his guest and covers a lot of ground from early Dapper days to OpenTelemetry to the costs and RoI of observability.
Tomcat monitoring
In A Complete Guide to Tomcat Monitoring: How to, Metrics & Choosing the Best Tools Rafal Kuc walks us through options and provides advice on the topic.
OTel community day retro
Shivani Shukla sharing their reflections on the OTel Community Day 2022, thanks a lot!
AMG fine grained
My colleagues Elamaran Shanmugam, Arun Chandapillai, Kishore Dhamodaran, and Munish Dabra wrote: Fine-grained access control in Amazon Managed Grafana using Grafana Teams, a hands-on walkthrough that should answer all your questions.
OTel 101 series
Thomas Stringer, a Microsoft engineer, started writing on a series of OpenTelemetry articles with Observability with OpenTelemetry Part 1 - Introduction now available, so make sure to bookmark and return!
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!