2024-05-13
OTel overview
Akanksha Rana wrote OpenTelemetry Is Shaping the Future of API Monitoring, a nice high-level intro into the project.
OTel collector news
Two exciting OpenTelemetry blog posts in a single week:
- The roadmap to v1 for the OpenTelemetry Collector by Alex Boten.
- Hope Oluwalolope sharing Insights from the OpenTelemetry Collector Survey.
Logs with Firehose
Learn from Pablo Balbi about Logs with Firehose: Stream logs to the AWS Observability app cheaper and easier, which can be used as a blueprint for other environments as well.
Prometheus blackbox exporter
Via the Squadcast blog: Prometheus Blackbox Exporter: A Guide for Monitoring External Systems, discussing use cases, best practices, and limitations. Thank you, folks!
Distributed tracing intro
A really excellent hands-on intro: check out What is Distributed Tracing? from the good folks at Dash0. KUTGW!
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