2022-12-12
Data pipeline observability
Nice data observability contrib by Jaemar Miller: read Data Pipeline Observability in Cloud Computing to learn how to build dashboards for ETL pipelines.
eBay’s pivot to OpenTelemetry
Why and How eBay Pivoted to OpenTelemetry-in this awesome article Vijay Samuel shares lessons learned migrating to OpenTelemetry from an end-user perspective. Thank you so much for writing this!
OpenCost in CNCF
Matt Ray of Kubecost via the official CNCF blog: OpenCost: A new CNCF Sandbox Project for real-time Kubernetes cost monitoring. Congrats!
OTel APAC end-user meetings
In addition to the US and EMEA we now also have OpenTelemetry end-user sessions for APAC, learn about the details in the blog post on New APAC Sessions Announcement! by Reese Lee.
Monitoring Mastodon
Krisztian Fekete’s blog post about Self-hosting Mastodon on NixOS, a proof-of-concept contains a detailed section on monitoring, nice!
Avoiding Prometheus gotchas
The one an only Julius Volz wrote a very useful blog post that you should read, especially when you’re new to Prometheus: Avoid These 6 Mistakes When Getting Started With Prometheus.
Prometheus ecosystem convo
Heads-up: coming Monday 2022-12-19 Julien Pivotto is talking about What’s new in the Prometheus ecosystem? on the OpenObservability Talks podcast.
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!