Without traffic signals and signage, life would not be pleasant on local streets; motorists would drive in opposing lanes and chaos would ensue. A stop sign is a reliable standard; it means…
The OpenTelemetry community has taken another step toward General Availability with the first release candidate of the tracing specification. It’s quite the milestone for the project, which modestly describes itself as the…
DevOps.com: “OpenTelemetry and the Future of Monitoring Instrumentation”
The project, OpenTelemetry, was officially started in May 2019. It is a Cloud Native Computing Foundation sandbox project and came out of the merger of the OpenCensus and OpenTracing projects. They’ve since…
Building the OpenTelemetry Ecosystem
Guest post by Austin Parker, Principal Developer Advocate at LightStep If the best platforms are more than matchmakers, then the best open source projects are more than utilities. It wouldn’t be incorrect…
SearchITOperations: "OpenTelemetry aids distributed tracing, Kubernetes monitoring"
The OpenTelemetry project defines a standard set of data collectors that support multiple observability tools, which offers significant advantages for Kubernetes monitoring, early adopters say.
OpenTelemetry: Future-Proofing Your Instrumentation
Guest post originally published on the New Relic blog by John Watson, lead engineer, and Lavanya Chockalingam, senior product marketing manager at New Relic As a developer, you care about the performance of your…
OpenTelemetry best practices (overview part 2/2)
Guest post originally published on the Espagon blog by Ran Ribenzaft, co-founder and CEO at Epsagon In the second article of our OpenTelemetry series, we’ll focus on best practices for using OpenTelemetry, after covering the…
Introduction to OpenTelemetry (Overview Part 1/2)
Guest post originally published on the Epsagon blog by Ran Ribenzaft, co-founder and CEO at Epsagon OpenTelemetry is an exciting new observability ecosystem with a number of leading monitoring companies behind it. It is…
A brief history of OpenTelemetry (So Far)
by Ben Sigelman, co-creator of OpenTracing and member of the OpenTelemetry governing committee, and Morgan McLean, Product Manager for OpenCensus at Google since the project’s inception After many months of planning, discussion,…
Key takeaways from KubeCon: deeper focus on FinOps, GitOps
Guest post originally published on the GlobalData blog by Charlotte Dunlap, Principal Analyst, Cloud and DevOps Services, GlobalData Technology Summary Bullets: The Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF), a new group focused on…