OTTL in Action

The one and only Henrik Rexed created a wonderful resource for learning the OpenTelemetry Transformation Language (OTTL), check out the YouTube video OTTL in Action: Stop Shipping Junk Telemetry to Your Backend and the respective GitHub repo with all snippets for you to try out.

Airbnb and OTel

Via the Airbnb tech blog: Building a high-volume metrics pipeline with OpenTelemetry and vmagent, by Eugene Ma and Natasha Aleksandrova.

OTel goes R

Charlie Gao, Aaron Jacobs, Barret Schloerke, and Gábor Csárdi of Posit on Bringing OpenTelemetry to R in production.

What does "supports OTel" mean?

In OTLP support is not OpenTelemetry support Juraci Paixão Kröhling raises really excellent points and my hope is that we will be able to address this via the Project Proposal: OpenTelemetry Support Maturity Model that Kasper Borg Nissen thankfully kicked off. Upvote and chime in with your POV, please.

Maintainable OTel collector config

And Juraci Paixão Kröhling strikes again: Decomposing OpenTelemetry Collector Configuration for Maintainability is an extremely useful hands-on guide on this topic.

Kafka-based pipeline

OpenTelemetry to ClickHouse: Do You Actually Need Kafka? by Armend Avdijaj is a well-written deep dive on pipeline challenges.

Tooling and more

Tooling and related stuff I stumbled upon and found interesting and/or helpful:

• The OpenTelemetry Collector Game, by the excellent Adam Gardner
• exemplar.dev, a control plane for agentic DevOps & SRE
• A development tool for agent observability by Datadog called Lapdog

That was it for this edition of the o11y newsletter. Feel free to share news items with me via Bluesky DM. Stay safe and hope to see you around next week!