2025-01-27
OTel Go instrumentation
Via the official OTel blog: Alibaba, Datadog, and Quesma Join Forces on Go Compile-Time Instrumentations. Exciting!
Monitoring Apache Kafka
Kafka End-to-End Monitoring by SPOUD. Great insights and lessons learned.
Spring Boot app instrumentation
In Instrumenting Spring applications with OpenTelemetry and Cloud Native Buildpacks the magnificent Michele Mancioppi shares hands-on advice. Thanks for sharing!
OTel panel
Another excellent practitioners panel you should add to your calendar: In love with OTel and observability, happening on Tue 2/11 at 10am PST.
OTel collector deep dive
OpenTelemetry Collector persistence and retry mechanisms under the hood by Bence Csáti is an awesome hands-on deep dive.
Windows monitoring with OTel
In Monitoring Windows Servers With the OpenTelemetry Collector the one and only Martin Thwaites explains all the details.
Metricshub
eBPF-Based Network Observability: Exploring Cilium Hubble and Alternatives by Anish Bista is a deep dive, hands-on guide on the topic.
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