2023-10-30
OpAMP status update
Jacob Aronoff (Lightstep), Evan Bradley (Dynatrace), Andy Keller (observIQ, Inc), Tigran Najaryan (Splunk), and yours truly published Open Agent Management Protocol (OpAMP) State of the Nation 2023 via the OpenTelemetry blog with the goal to provide you a quick status update where we are with OpAMP and what you can expect in the coming months.
Tail sampling intro
In Tail sampling: Improve your tracing platform with OpenTelemetry Iris Dyrmishi provides a nice and useful hands-on intro on the topic, thank you!
Perses for metrics visualization
PromCon Recap: Unveiling Perses, the GitOps-Friendly Metrics Visualization Tool is another great OpenObservability Talks episode with Augustin Husson (Perses creator) and host Dotan Horovits.
SigNoz & Tracetest
Adnan Rahic on SigNoz + Tracetest: OpenTelemetry-Native Observability Meets Testing, a hands-on deep dive showing these two projects/products coming together. Nice!
Prometheus centralized storage
This is the continuation of last week's post by Vladimir Guryanov: Prometheus and centralized storage: When you need it, how it works, and what Mimir is.
Invokedynamic in OTel Java agent
In Elastic's contribution: Invokedynamic in the OpenTelemetry Java agent Alexander Wert, Jack Shirazi, Jonas Kunz, and Sylvain Juge summarize their contribution. Thank you!
What's new at AWS
PSAs, in case you missed these launches:
- We launched out-of-the box, best practice alarm recommendations for AWS service-vended metrics in Amazon CloudWatch.
- AWS X-Ray now supports W3C format trace IDs for distributed tracing, which you may find particularly interesting in the context of tracing with OpenTelemetry.
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!