2024-04-22
OTel resource attributes
In OpenTelemetry Resources: What they are, why you need them, and why they are awesome the one and only Michele Mancioppi of Dash0 provides an excellent deep dive into OpenTelemetry resource attributes. Well done!
ThanosCon retro
ThanosCon Retrospective by Bartek Płotka is a very useful coverage of this recent event, including lessons learned. Thanks for sharing!
Universal profiling agent for OTel
Did you know that the Elastic Universal Profiling agent, a continuous profiling solution, is now open source? In any case, check out this post by Israel Ogbole and Christos Kalkanis, and learn what that means for OpenTelemetry (and you ;)
AWS o11y updates
My colleagues Siva Guruvareddiar and Imaya Kumar Jagannathan wrote
Autoscaling Kubernetes workloads with KEDA using Amazon Managed Service for
Prometheus metrics, demonstrating how to do event-driven autoscaling
of EKS clusters with Kubernetes Event-driven Autoscaling (KEDA).
My colleagues Shubir Kapoor and Mihir Surani published Improve cost visibility of Amazon EKS with AWS Split Cost Allocation Data, allowing you to gain cost insights down to the namespace and workload level.
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!