2023-11-06

November 6, 2023

Visualize and validate OTel The wonderful folks from Dash0 launched OTelBin. You can use it either as an online tool or run it yourself as OSS: OTelBin...

2023-10-30

October 30, 2023

OpAMP status update Jacob Aronoff (Lightstep), Evan Bradley (Dynatrace), Andy Keller (observIQ, Inc), Tigran Najaryan (Splunk), and yours truly published...

2023-10-23

October 23, 2023

eBPF for network monitoring Israel Ogbole on Getting Started with eBPF: Monitoring TCP Retransmissions Using eBPF, Go and Prometheus, a hands-on deep dive....

2023-10-16

October 17, 2023

Observability @ Scale Manoj Sebastian Kulatharayil wrote Observability @ Scale, where he shares experiences and insights from building & buying observability...

2023-10-09

October 9, 2023

Visualization in the age of OTel Check out Observability Visualization in the Age of OpenTelemetry by Devrim Demiroz. This 42 min video up on YouTube was...

2023-10-02

October 2, 2023

OpenTelemetry instrumentation Best practices for instrumenting OpenTelemetry by Bahubali Shetti of Elastic is a nice contribution in this space, thank you...

2023-09-25

September 25, 2023

Migrating Jaeger Via the OpenTelemetry blog: Migrating away from the Jaeger exporter in the Collector by Alex Boten is a short but useful PSA on the topic....

2023-09-18

September 18, 2023

Tracing tenant activity In Tracing Tenant Activity for Multi-Account SaaS with AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry my colleagues Peter Yang and Tomo Sakatoku show...

2023-09-11

September 11, 2023

OpenTelemetry profiling With a PR titled Introduces Profiling Data Model, a new OpenTelemetry Enhancement Proposal (OTEP), we witness another step in the...

2023-09-04

September 4, 2023

eBPF for o11y Learn from Frederic Branczyk how to do zero-effort telemetry collection via this wonderful QConPlus talk and article: Sprinkling eBPF onto Your...

2023-08-28

August 28, 2023

OpenTelemetry operator In OpenTelemetry Operator — How the operands are upgraded Diego Amaral provides a deep dive walk-through on the inner working of this...

2023-08-21

August 21, 2023

Relabeling in Prometheus The one and only Julius Volz released another one of his excellently produced, content-rich videos: watch Relabeling in Prometheus...

2023-08-14

August 14, 2023

Observability at the edge In Observability at the Edge Brian Chambers of Chick-fil-A shares their approach, tooling, and lessons learned around...

2023-08-07

August 7, 2023

Service mesh observability In Service Mesh for Developers: Exploring the Power of Observability and OpenTelemetry Antonio Berben explains service mesh...

2023-07-31

July 31, 2023

CI/CD observability In the most recent episode of OpenObservability Talks called Continuous Observability: Shedding Light on CI/CD Pipelines Dotan Horovits...

2023-07-24

July 24, 2023

Test automation o11y Visualising and Monitoring in Test Automation by Mohd Jeeshan is a detailed hands-on walkthrough how to use Prometheus, the Pushgateway,...

2023-07-17

July 17, 2023

OTel benchmarks Did you know that the OpenTelemetry community runs collector load tests and shares the results via dedicated benchmarks that you in turn can...

2023-07-10

July 10, 2023

Logging in Kubernetes In Logging in Kubernetes Oshi Gupta and Pratiksha Patel of CloudYuga describe the various sources of logs in the Kubernetes control and...

2023-07-03

July 3, 2023

Reduce costs with OTel Via TNS: 5 Ways OpenTelemetry Can Reduce Costs by Morgan McLean is a short but sweet article on an important topic. CDK o11y...

2023-06-26

June 26, 2023

OpenTelemetry PyCon talk How To Monitor and Troubleshoot Applications using OpenTelemetry by Ron Nathaniel is a PyCon talk, covering all things OTel from...

2023-06-19

June 19, 2023

OpenTelemetry goes mainframe Exploring OpenTelemetry’s Potential for Unlocking Mainframe Insights by Gregory Shriver of Broadcom makes the case that...

2023-06-12

June 12, 2023

Adobe's OpenTelemetry usage How Adobe Uses OpenTelemetry Collector is a TNS article by Susan Hall that covers the talk that Adobe’s Chris Featherstone and...

2023-06-05

June 5, 2023

O11y stack on Kubernetes Running Observability Stack on Kubernetes by Piotr Mossakowski (GetInData) is a hands-on deep dive on the topic, thank you for the...

2023-05-29

May 29, 2023

PromQL deep dive Check out PromQL Data Selection Explained by the one and only Julius Volz. In this 14 min YouTube video he explains how data selection in...

2023-05-22

May 22, 2023

ML goes o11y As mentioned last week, exciting times. We're seeing more and more Machine Learning/NLP applied to observability: check out Honeycomb's Natural...

2023-05-15

May 15, 2023

New Relic Grok In Meet New Relic Grok, the first GenAI assistant for observability, Camden Swita shows Grok in action. Exciting times! Collector...

2023-05-08

May 8, 2023

OpenTelemetry in focus Via the OpenTelemetry blog: OpenTelemetry in Focus, April 2023, by Austin Parker, brings you up to speed with the development...

2023-05-01

May 1, 2023

Connecting dots using OTel Mohit Shukla wrote Connecting the dots using OpenTelemetry from an end-user perspective. My observability journey My Observability...

2023-04-24

April 24, 2023

O11y driven development Bijit Ghosh’s Observability Driven Development (ODD)-Enhancing System Reliability is a good deep dive on a topic I see more and more...

2023-04-17

April 17, 2023

Databricks observability Alexandr Volok's Databricks Observability: Collecting Ganglia Metrics is a nice hands-on piece. We need more visibility into data...

2023-04-10

April 10, 2023

OpenTelemetry at KubeCon If you’re around in Amsterdam next week: Join us for OpenTelemetry Talks and Activities at KubeCon EU 2023 (and kudos go out to...

2023-04-03

April 3, 2023

Kubernetes SLOs The awesome Nobl9 crew open sourced Essential Kubernetes Gauges, a set of standardized, pre-fabricated SLOs that measure the reliability of...

2023-03-27

March 27, 2023

PHP auto-instrumentation Przemek Delewski of Sumo Logic shared OpenTelemetry PHP Auto-Instrumentation via the OpenTelemetry blog. Learn from this hands-on...

2023-03-20

March 20, 2023

Learning eBPF The one and only Liz Rice wrote a book (again ;) and you want to make sure to read Learning eBPF, no matter if you’re more interested in the...

2023-03-13

March 13, 2023

OpenTelemetry SpanLinks The very awesome Martin Thwaites of Honeycomb wrote Understanding Distributed Tracing with a Message Bus, covering OpenTelemetry...

2023-03-06

March 6, 2023

A quick note before we get to the content: two years ago precisely, that is, in March 2021, I started this newsletter and thought this is a good opportunity...

2023-02-27

February 27, 2023

Parsing Syslog with Fluentd Tanmay Bhat wrote An Overview of Syslog Parsing with Fluentd, a hands-on piece you will want to check out if you're using...

2023-02-20

February 20, 2023

Profiling overview Nicolas Takashi wrote Observability beyond the three pillars — Profiling in da house., a short but comprehensive overview on continuous...

2023-02-13

February 13, 2023

NestJS tracing with OTel Tom Ray wrote the deep dive NestJS tracing with Open Telemetry: A how-to guide with examples. From OpenTracing to OTel In this CNCF...

2023-02-06

February 6, 2023

Grafana for database monitoring My colleagues Elamaran Shanmugam, Munish Dabra, Ravi Mathur, and Shankar Rajagopalan wrote Monitoring Amazon RDS and Amazon...

2023-01-30

January 30, 2023

System overview dashboards Can We Stop With Those Horrible “System Overview” Dashboards Already? by Boris Cherkasky sounds like a rant, but is really a...

2023-01-23

January 23, 2023

Data-driven alert tuning Data-driven alert tuning by Trevor Li is a great hands-on guide on this topic, have a look! JMX metric insights In Gaining JMX...

2023-01-16

January 16, 2023

Continuous profiling: Pyroscope Check out the "Is It Observable" episode What is Continuous Profiling and What is Pyroscope with Ryan Perry. O11y-driven...

2023-01-09

January 9, 2023

Structured logging Observability with Structured logging by Saiyantan Ghosh provides a nice hands-on intro into the topic, using the ELK stack. CloudWatch...

2023-01-02

January 2, 2023

Happy New Year to you and welcome back to o11y.news! eBPF for observability Using eBPF and predefined inspections to minimize “observability tax” by Nikolay...

2022-12-26

December 26, 2022

Monitoring Structured Streaming In Monitoring Structured Streaming with External Systems Jerrold Law shows how to use Prometheus and Grafana to monitor a...

2022-12-19

December 19, 2022

Monitoring GitLab Learn from Diogo Daniel Pacheco how to Monitor GitLab with OpenTelemetry and New Relic. PromCon EU 2022 In PromCon EU 2022: Our highlights...

2022-12-12

December 12, 2022

Data pipeline observability Nice data observability contrib by Jaemar Miller: read Data Pipeline Observability in Cloud Computing to learn how to build...

2022-12-05

December 5, 2022

OpenTelemetry + OpenSearch Learn from Arul Selvan about Observability Solutions with OpenTelemetry + OpenSearch, where he provides a hands-on walkthrough....

2022-11-28

November 28, 2022

OpenTelemetry's future Check out this short YouTube video by Ted Young on Native OSS instrumentation: OpenTelemetry and the Future of Observability - Part 4....