observability news

2025-10-13

October 13, 2025

OTel pipeline for Kubernetes In Building a Unified OpenTelemetry Pipeline in Kubernetes Fatih Koç provides a hands-on walkthrough on this very relevant...

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2025-10-06

October 6, 2025

Buy vs build In the r/sre sub-reddit, I stumbled upon an interesting conversation, check out Observability choices 2025: Buy vs Build to learn about options...

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2025-09-29

September 29, 2025

DIY OTel collectors In Custom OpenTelemetry Collectors: Build, Run, and Manage at Scale, Adnan Rahic provides excellent guidance. Thanks for sharing! How to...

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2025-09-08

September 8, 2025

OTLP 101 Ayooluwa Isaiah of Dash0 is on a roll! Read What Is OTLP and Why It's the Future of Observability, an excellent mixture of theory and hands-on...

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2025-09-01

September 1, 2025

Metrics in OTel In What are metrics in OpenTelemetry: A Complete Guide, Neel Patel provides a very nice intro into OTel metrics, including lots of hands-on...

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2025-08-25

August 25, 2025

Cortex: efficient queries In Efficient Query Parallelism in Cortex with Dynamic Query Splitting my colleague Ahmed Hassan explores the motivations behind...

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2025-08-18

August 18, 2025

OpenSearch and OpenTelemetry In Diving deep into distributed microservices with OpenSearch and OpenTelemetrys my colleagues Shenoy Pratik Gurudatt and Adam...

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2025-08-11

August 11, 2025

OTel configuration gotchas Nicolas Fränkel strikes again: read OpenTelemetry configuration gotchas and learn about some good practices. Counting the cost of...

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2025-08-04

August 4, 2025

OTel survey Your opportunity to shape OTel's future: fill in the OTel Collector Follow-up Survey by upstream OTel. Likely effort is less than 3 minutes....

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2025-07-28

July 28, 2025

OTel pipelines On the topic of building telemetry pipelines with OTel, I have not one but two contributions this time. Check out Building Telemetry Pipelines...

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2025-07-21

July 21, 2025

Instrumentation choices The one and only Julius Volz with a somewhat spicy take: Why I recommend native Prometheus instrumentation over OpenTelemetry. I...

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2025-07-14

July 14, 2025

Application logging in Python Another great contribution from the Dash0 folks: read Application Logging in Python: Recipes for Observability by Ayooluwa...

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2025-07-07

July 7, 2025

OTel Java auto-instrumentation In OpenTelemetry Autoinstrumentation in Java Kasper Borg Nissen of Dash0 provides context on the topic, shows it in action,...

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2025-06-30

June 30, 2025

Applying OpenTelemetry Two video resources I can recommend, no matter if you're new to OTel or already have some experience: From the SREday Amsterdam 2025,...

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2025-06-23

June 23, 2025

How AI may change operations In It’s The End Of Observability As We Know It (And I Feel Fine) Austin Parker writes about on how AI may change the way we...

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2025-06-16

June 16, 2025

Instrumentation score Instrumentation Score launched, allowing you to automatically assess your telemetry! Learn more about this exciting initiative in...

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2025-06-09

June 9, 2025

Exposing OTel Collector Via the official OpenTelemetry blog: in Exposing OTel Collector in Kubernetes with Gateway API & mTLS Vipin Vijaykumar explains how...

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2025-06-02

June 2, 2025

OpenSearch and OpenTelemetry In ELK alternative: Modern log management setup with OpenTelemetry and OpenSearch Malay Hazarika motivates the observability...

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2025-05-26

May 26, 2025

AWS updates Two recent observability-related news from AWS services: The EKS Dashboard is a centralized display that provides you with organization-wide...

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2025-05-19

May 19, 2025

OpenTelemetry log levels In A Modern Approach to Log Levels with OpenTelemetry Ayooluwa Isaiah dives deep into the semantics of log levels and how to apply...

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