2024-02-05
OTel collector survey
If you're using the OpenTelemetry collector, please consider helping the SIG Collector to prioritize their work by investing a few minutes: share your input via the OTel Collector Survey within the next month.
Target allocator
Simplify Metric Collection with Target Allocator! Unleashing Prometheus Power with OpenTelemetry by Henrik Rexed is a really useful 23 min video where he explains the Prometheus receiver's role in the OTel collector and shows the Target Allocator in action. Thanks!
OpenTelemetry tracing demo
Nicolas Fränkel reports Improving upon my OpenTelemetry Tracing demo, showing Kotlin, Python, and Rust and storage in action.
Lossless log aggregation
In Lossless Log Aggregation Kevin Lin dives into log aggregation and how to reduce the log volume without missing out. Interesting!
New Relic Pathpoint
Yoram Mireles wrote Introducing New Relic Pathpoint, a short piece on business observability and how their new offering can help.
Lambda Telemetry and OSS
My colleagues Anton Aleksandrov, Kevin Shaw, and Shridhar Pandey published Integrating the AWS Lambda Telemetry API with Prometheus and OpenSearch explaining how the AWS Lambda Telemetry API works and how to integrate it with open source observability.
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