2025-09-29
DIY OTel collectors
In Custom OpenTelemetry Collectors: Build, Run, and Manage at Scale, Adnan Rahic provides excellent guidance. Thanks for sharing!
How to name your metrics
How to Name Your Metrics by the one and only Juraci Paixão Kröhling is a must-read for OpenTelemetry practitioners.
OTel collector releases
The OpenTelemetry Collector Release Notes Comparator is a really cool and handy tool. Bookmark now, thank me later ;)
Monitoring Kubernetes
On the topic of Kubernetes Monitoring Metrics That Improve Cluster Reliability, by Anjali Udasi.
Intelligent operations
Another great contribution from Andrew Mallaband: read Observability 2025: A Real-World Journey to Intelligent Operations and grab your playbook.
Optimizing ingestion in AMP
My colleagues Sasi Kiran Malladi, Thomas Sceifers, and Raviteja Sunkavalli wrote Optimizing metrics ingestion with Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus, exploring how to set up cross-account metrics ingestion and establish governance controls with Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus (AMP).
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