2022-11-21

November 21, 2022

GraphQL with OTel In Monitoring Apollo Server with OpenTelemetry Mat Wilk explains how to integrate GraphQL with OTel in great detail. SNMP with OTel Paul...

2022-11-14

November 14, 2022

Postgres back-end for Jaeger In Using PostgreSQL as a Scalable, Durable, and Reliable Storage for Jaeger Tracing Ramon Guiu provides a hands-on deep dive on...

2022-11-07

November 9, 2022

Tracing SQS with OpenTelemetry Another short video by my colleague James Eastham, this time on the topic of Tracing serverless applications through SQS with...

2022-10-31

October 31, 2022

OTel+.NET+Lambda+Honeycomb Check out Open Telemetry with .NET on AWS Lambda using Honeycomb, a short video my colleague James Eastham put together. Lightstep...

2022-10-24

October 24, 2022

Tail Kubernetes logs In How to Tail Kubernetes Logs: Using the Kubectl Command to See Pod, Container, and Deployment Logs, Gaurav Yadav walks us through the...

2022-10-17

October 17, 2022

Observability for testers In Why observability matters for testers, Parveen Khan makes some good points. Observability strategies Nicolas Takashi shares...

2022-10-10

October 10, 2022

OpenTelemetry in Rust In OpenTelemetry Context Propagation with Rust, Peterpaul Klein Haneveld dives deep into distributed tracing using OpenTelemetry in...

2022-10-03

October 3, 2022

OpenTelemetry for Python In OpenTelemetry for Python: Manual Configuration & Context Propagation the one and only Adri Villela provides a deep-dive on this...

2022-09-26

September 26, 2022

Six pillars of observability In TEMPLE: Six Pillars of Observability Yuri Shkuro (Meta), creator of Jaeger and of OpenTelemetry fame, shares some solid o11y...

2022-09-19

September 19, 2022

OpenTelemetry for the frontend Read Ben Greenberg’s Using OpenTelemetry to reduce the web development tooling tax, an interesting use case. JavaScript...

2022-09-12

September 12, 2022

Continuous profiling You might have already heard that there is an initiative to bring support for CP to OpenTelemetry and in this context I recommend to...

2022-09-05

September 5, 2022

Certified Prometheus You probably have heard about CKA(D) and related Kubernetes certs? Here is what you’ve been waiting for and I’m indeed super proud we’ve...

2022-08-29

August 29, 2022

Configure Grafana remote DB Tanmay Bhat strikes again! Check out his article on how to Configure Grafana to Use Remote Database for HA. NGINX and...

2022-08-22

August 22, 2022

Python profiling The one and only Itamar Turner-Trauring on Finding performance problems: profiling or logging?, something every Pythonista should peruse....

2022-08-15

August 15, 2022

OpenTelemetry beginner’s guide Check out Magsther's A beginner’s guide to OpenTelemetry, a high-level overview and quick read. Snowflake in Grafana My...

2022-08-08

August 8, 2022

Open observability day ICYMI: the Open Observability Day, covering everything from Prometheus & OpenMetrics to Fluentd & Fluent Bit to OpenTelemetry will...

2022-08-01

August 1, 2022

Tracing SQL with OpenTelemetry Check out Timescale's John Pruitt's workshop video up YouTube on Analyzing and Visualizing OpenTelemetry Traces with SQL....

2022-07-25

July 25, 2022

Errors as metrics Andrii Abramov has a very nice, hands-on deep dive on to how to collect NestJS errors and export them as Prometheus metrics, check out:...

2022-07-18

July 18, 2022

SLO monitoring Natalia Sikora-Zimna (Nobl9) along with my dear colleagues Toshal Dudhwala and Imaya Kumar Jagannathan explain how AWS Observability Services...

2022-07-11

July 11, 2022

Prometheus remote-write In How to send only specific scrape job metrics in Prometheus remote write Tanmay Bhat shared some practical tips on the topic. SIEM...

2022-07-04

July 4, 2022

Making eBPF-based o11y simpler Krisztian Fekete of Solo.io (previously at LastPass in an SRE role) has put together an interesting piece that I think you...

2022-06-27

June 27, 2022

A convo with Alolita Sharma Excellent OpenObservability Talks episode with Alolita Sharma of Apple: watch OpenTelemetry and the Vision for Unified Open...

2022-06-20

June 20, 2022

RabbitMQ logging Nice article from Sunny Srinidhi, read the Beginner’s Guide to RabbitMQ Logging: How to View, Locate, and Analyze Logs. OpenTelemetry for...

2022-06-13

June 13, 2022

OpenTelemetry Community Day Only one week to go: the OpenTelemetry Community Day is taking place on June 20 in Austin, Texas and also, you can join virtually...

2022-06-06

June 6, 2022

OpenTelemetry in Jaeger Yuri Shkuro is Introducing native support for OpenTelemetry in Jaeger, very exciting! Apache goes Otel In Learn how to instrument...

2022-05-30

May 30, 2022

PrometheusDay videos The videos of the PrometheusDay EU 2022 talks are now up on YouTube, enjoy! NGINX logging In NGINX Logging Configuration: How to View...

2022-05-23

May 23, 2022

SQL for observability Ramon Guiu of Timescale making a point, learn about Observability Powered by SQL: Understand Your Systems Like Never Before With...

2022-05-16

May 16, 2022

Managed Prometheus update My colleague Mike George on Introducing vended metrics for Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus. Developer o11y Another great...

2022-05-09

May 9, 2022

Database operations In OpenTelemetry in Action: Optimizing Database Operations Rahul Rai provides a hands-on deep dive on this important topic. OpenTelemetry...

2022-05-02

May 2, 2022

Shipping logs In Shipping logs to third-parties with Kinesis Data Firehose and Fluent Bit for Amazon EKS on AWS Fargate, my colleague Darren Lin shows an...

2022-04-25

April 25, 2022

Service level management In Introducing service level management, Dan Holloran of New Relic reviews and demonstrates the basics of SLOs and SLIs. Why Thanos...

2022-04-18

April 18, 2022

OpenTelemetry 101 In OpenTelemetry, the standardized observability framework for everyone, Jeffrey Lean provides a quick overview of Otel and shows tracing...

2022-04-11

April 11, 2022

Prometheus operations In How to drop and delete metrics in Prometheus, Tanmay Bhat shares tips and tooling around metrics hygiene, leading to a more reliable...

2022-04-04

April 4, 2022

Monitoring GraphQL APIs In Monitoring GraphQL APIs with OpenTelemetry, Ankit Anand shows an interesting use case for Otel: GraphQL APIs. The walkthrough...

2022-03-28

March 28, 2022

Prometheus relabeling In How relabeling in Prometheus works, Paschalis Tsilias explains in detail how you can filter and rewrite labels. Well written, thank...

2022-03-21

March 21, 2022

Otel with New Relic One In Troubleshoot your applications faster with OpenTelemetry and New Relic One, Lavanya Chockalingam provides an in-depth walkthrough,...

2022-03-14

March 14, 2022

HAProxy monitoring guide In HAProxy Monitoring Guide: Important Metrics & Best Tools in 2022, Gaurav Yadav provides a good overview on tooling. OpenTelemetry...

2022-03-07

March 7, 2022

Prometheus summary metrics In How summary metrics work in Prometheus, Fabian Stäber motivates and explains what those metrics are and how they are...

2022-02-28

February 28, 2022

Distributed tracing guide Check out the Guide to Distributed Tracing: How to Understand and Troubleshoot Microservices, by the awesome folks from Aspecto....

2022-02-21

February 21, 2022

Periskop updates Learn from Marc Tuduri What Is New with Periskop in 2022, including client libraries and UX improvements. Distributed tracing for...

2022-02-14

February 14, 2022

Prometheus stack 101 Getting started with kube-prometheus-stack by r0b is a hands-on walkthrough on the topic, with some sweet lessons learned shared,...

2022-02-07

February 7, 2022

Distributed Tracing for Istio Distributed Tracing with Istio, Quarkus and Jaeger by Piotr Minkowski is an excellent hands-on deep dive on the topic of...

2022-01-31

January 31, 2022

Actionable alerts Making Alerts Actionable by Edward Smongeski is a short but sweet reading on the topic, capturing some good practices and tips. Profile the...

2022-01-24

January 24, 2022

eBPF profiling background Two resources I can recommend if you want to learn more about (eBPF-based) profiling: the intro-level What is eBPF? | An...

2022-01-17

January 17, 2022

SaaS observability In the most recent OpenObservability talks with the title SaaS Observability Done Right, Aviad Mizrachi (CTO of Frontegg) shares some...

2022-01-10

January 10, 2022

Prometheus agent mode Check out Why is the Prometheus Agent Mode So Great? by Alex Vazquez if you’re wondering what you want to use to scrape your...

2022-01-03

January 3, 2022

Happy New Year to you and welcome back to o11y.news! Instrumenting Flask app In Flask Application Manual Instrumentation for Distributed Traces we learn how...

2021-12-27

December 27, 2021

KEDA Kubernetes autoscaling Proactive autoscaling of Kubernetes workloads with KEDA using metrics ingested into Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus by my...

2021-12-20

December 20, 2021

Athena plugin for Grafana In Query and analyze Amazon S3 data with the new Amazon Athena plugin for Grafana Grafana Labs' Sarah Zinger and my buddy Robbie...

2021-12-13

December 13, 2021

Apache logging Understanding Apache Logging: How to View, Locate and Analyze Access & Error Logs is a nice tutorial by Rafal Kuć. Otel collector options The...