observability news

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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2025-05-12

May 12, 2025

OTel updates Two updates from the official OTel blog that you may want to take a look at: In The Humans of OpenTelemetry - KubeCon EU 2025, you can learn...

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2025-05-05

May 5, 2025

Purposeful instrumentation The one and only Juraci Paixão Kröhling wrote Purposeful Instrumentation, providing guidance and sharing best practices on a...

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2025-04-28

April 28, 2025

OSS o11y hands-on Production-Ready Observability with Prometheus, Loki & Grafana by Neamul Kabir Emon is a hands-on contribution on how to set up and use an...

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2025-04-21

April 21, 2025

OTel at KubeCon Check out the recordings of OpenTelemetry talks at KubeCon EU 2025 up on YouTube, kudos to Alex Boten. Observability costs How Much Should I...

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2025-04-14

April 14, 2025

Monitoring challenges In OpenTelemetry: Solving Modern Application Monitoring Challenges Ibrahim Cisse motivates monitoring challenges and shows how OTel can...

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2025-04-07

April 7, 2025

OTel hands-on Even more OpenTelemetry - Kubernetes special by Nicolas Fränkel is a hands-on deep dive of using OTel in a containerized environment, including...

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2025-03-31

March 31, 2025

OTel in practice I found Wiard van Rij's OpenTelemetry in Practice: Useful, But Not the Endgame for Users insightful. Thanks for the write-up! Thoughts on...

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