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…
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 excellence is…
OpenTelemetry demystified: a deep dive into distributed tracing
Guest post by Jay Swamidass, Logiq.ai If you’re a DevOps engineer, IT personnel, or developer, you’re likely very familiar with telemetry data. After all, it’s what provides you with valuable insights into an application’s health and performance. Although…
The New Stack: “OpenTelemetry Gaining Traction from Companies and Vendors”
At its heart, OpenTelemetry is about identifying problems in complex systems to create a better user experience. But to do that, it has to make sense of petabytes of data across thousands, even hundreds of thousands, of nodes.
Testing Kafka-based asynchronous workflows using OpenTelemetry
Guest post originally published on the Signadot blog by Arjun Iyer and Scott Cotton Introduction Asynchronous architectures are common in cloud native applications as it decouples services and improves the scalability and reliability of the system. A message…
Helping Go teams implement OpenTelemetry: A new approach
Guest post originally published on the Helios blog by Ran Nozik Developers can instrument their Go applications quickly and easily using Helios OpenTelemetry (OTel), the emerging industry standard for application observability and distributed tracing across cloud-native and distributed architectures,…
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…
Kitex proxyless practice: traffic lane implementation with Istio and OpenTelemetry
Guest post originally published on CloudWeGo’s blog by CoderPoet and Guangming Luo This blog mainly introduces the realization of traffic routing based on Kitex Proxyless and the bookinfo demo rewrote with Kitex and Hertz. The purpose is to…
Why OpenTelemetry Is Taking Cloud Native to New Heights
Guest post by Dave McAllister, Sr OSS Technical Evangelist at NGINX Observability is key when running cloud‑native apps. In cloud native, app functionality emerges from the interaction between numerous microservices running in multiple locations. The loosely coupled nature…
Why Sumo Logic is betting its future on OpenTelemetry
Guest post originally published on Sumo Logic’s blog by Melissa Sussmann When teams collect data without full observability of what others on the team can see, it becomes clear that no one’s picture is truly accurate. In this…