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…
OpenTelemetry demo now generally available!
Cross-post from the OpenTelemetry project blog by Austin Parker Earlier this year, we announced a project to build an OpenTelemetry Demo, representing the breadth of OpenTelemetry features and languages. Today, the Demo SIG is proud to announce OpenTelemetry Demo v1.0! With this…
APM Digest: “A Guide to OpenTelemetry – Part 1″
OpenTelemetry — You have probably heard of it. You may already be using parts of it. In this 8-part blog series, posted over the next two weeks, APMdigest will explore OpenTelemetry, with input from a range of experts…
An introduction to OpenTelemetry and observability
Guest post originally published on the InfluxData blog by Charles Mahler Cloud native and microservice architectures bring many advantages in terms of performance, scalability, and reliability, but one thing they can also bring is complexity. Having requests move between…
How OpenTelemetry works under the hood in JavaScript
Guest post originally published on the Helios blog by Ran Nozik OpenTelemetry (OTel) is an open source selection of tools, SDKs and APIs, that allows developers to collect and export traces, metrics and logs. It’s the second-most active project…
Prometheus vs. OpenTelemetry metrics: A complete guide
Guest post originally published on Timescale’s blog by James Blackwood-Sewell Welcome to the third and final post of our series about metrics. First, we deep-dived into the four types of Prometheus metrics; then, we examined how metrics work in OpenTelemetry; and…
Set up and observe a Spring Boot application with Grafana Cloud, Prometheus, and OpenTelemetry
Guest post originally published on the Grafana Labs blog by Adam Quan Spring Boot is a very popular microservice framework that significantly simplifies web application development by providing Java developers with a platform to get started with an…
OpenTelemetry roadmap and latest updates
Project post originally published on Dotan Horovits’ blog TL;DR Key updates: OpenTelemetry has reached RC for Metrics Logs specification is stable, Logs Beta plans Adding Real User Monitoring support to OpenTelemetry Adding Continuous Profiling to OpenTelemetry Ease of…
A deep dive into OpenTelemetry metrics
Guest post originally published on Timescale’s blog by James Blackwood-Sewell Table of contents 01 OpenTelemetry Metrics 02 Measurements to Metrics 03 Instruments and Emitting Measurements 04 Views and Aggregations This is the second post of a three-part series…