Member post originally published on the Middleware blog by Sam Suthar In the race to adopt cutting-edge technologies like Kubernetes, microservices, and serverless computing, monitoring often becomes an afterthought. Many enterprises assume their legacy observability tools will suffice. However, as they…
OpenTelemetry for generative AI
Project post originally published on the OpenTelemetry blog by Drew Robbins (Microsoft), Liudmila Molkova (Microsoft) As organizations increasingly adopt Large Language Models (LLMs) and other generative AI technologies, ensuring reliable performance, efficiency, and safety is essential…
Docsy 2024 review: adoptions and enhancements
By Patrice Chalin (CNCF), for the Docsy Steering Committee As we reflect on 2024, it’s exciting to see steady progress toward the goals outlined in our 2024 priorities. This year, we focused on enhancing stability, improving internationalization, and delivering long-anticipated…
Platform Engineering needs Observability: here’s why
Blog post originally published on the Middleware blog by Sri Krishna In the high-stakes environment of Black Friday, e-commerce platforms encounter intense traffic surges that can heavily strain system performance. For example, during Black Friday 2023, online…
Jaeger v2 released: OpenTelemetry in the core!
Project post by the Jaeger maintainers Jaeger, the popular open-source distributed tracing platform, has had a successful 9 year history as being one of the first graduated projects in the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). After…
OpenTelemetry Collector: everything a developer needs to know
Member post originally published on the Middleware blog by Keval Bhogayata In distributed applications with complex, resource-intensive microservices—each of which generates a mountain of telemetry data—collecting and managing telemetry with your application can be cumbersome and inefficient….
Does your observability practice lack maturity? Here’s what to do
Member blog post originally published on the Logz.io blog by Jake O’Donnell Observability isn’t new. But organizations are struggling to adopt mature observability practices, and the impact on business is palpable. Organizations are seeing the value of…
Implementing OpenTelemetry natively in an event broker
Community post originally published on Linux.com by Tamimi Ahmad, Solace Introduction In basic terms, an event-driven architecture (EDA) is a distributed system that involves moving data and events between microservices in an asynchronous manner with an event…
How we combined OpenTelemetry traces with Prometheus metrics to build a powerful alerting mechanism
Member post originally published on the Helios blog by Ran Nozik Leveraging open source projects and creative thinking helped us deliver trace-based alerts to our customers swiftly and efficiently. One of the qualities of engineering team…
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…