Migrating from OpenTracing to OpenTelemetry
Guest post originally published on Tyk’s blog by Sonja Chevre An API gateway can simplify operational concerns like observability by providing a single access point for requests to all web services in a system. As all requests flow…
CNCF Archives the OpenTracing Project
CNCF announced today that the Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) has approved the archiving of the OpenTracing project. Archived projects are fairly rare but a sign of a healthy open source community. OpenTracing is only the second project to…
Trace your microservices application with Zipkin and OpenTracing
By Gianluca Arbezzano, Site Reliability Engineer at InfluxDB, CNCF Ambassador Walter Dal Mut is a certified Amazon Web Service consultant. He works at Corley SRL, an Italian company that helps other small and big companies move to the…
January 2018: OpenTracing project newsletter
Members of OpenTracing made a New Year’s Resolution in 2018 to communicate the progress made by the project regularly and consistently. To that end, this is the first of many posts to come. Read on to learn about…
CNCF brings Kubernetes, CoreDNS, OpenTracing and Prometheus to Google Summer of Code 2017
The Google Summer of Code (GSOC) program allows university students (over the age of 18) from around the world to spend their summer breaks writing code and learning about open source development. Accepted students work with a mentor and become…
OpenTracing: turning the lights on for microservices
By Ben Sigelman (@el_bhs), OpenTracing co-author Those building microservices at scale understand the role and importance of distributed tracing: after all, it’s the most direct way to understand how and why complex systems misbehave. When we deployed Dapper…
OpenTracing joins the Cloud Native Computing Foundation
Today, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) Technical Oversight Committee voted to accept OpenTracing as a third hosted project after Kubernetes and Prometheus. You can find more information on the project in this proposal presented to the TOC…
A practical guide to data collection with OpenTelemetry and Prometheus
Guest post originally published on Grafana Labs’ blog by Goutham Veeramachaneni Grafana Labs has always been actively involved in the OpenTelemetry community, even working with the predecessor projects OpenTracing and OpenCensus. We have been supporting OTLP as the primary input…
36 CNCF term 2 LFX mentees have successfully completed the program!
Congratulations to the 36 interns who have graduated from the LFX Program after working with CNCF projects over June, July, and August! Mentees had the opportunity to work on many different projects across our Graduated, Incubating, and Sandbox…
The rise of open standards in observability: highlights from KubeCon
Guest post originally published on Logz.io’s blog by Dotan Horovits, Logz.io TL;DR Key updates: Query Language Standard for Observability: new CNCF working group led by eBay, Netflix Standardizing the Prometheus Remote-Write Protocol Sunsetting OpenCensus in Favor of OpenTelemetry…