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…
Easy Observability with Open Standards: Introducing the Pixie Plugin System
Guest post by Michelle Nguyen, Principal Software Engineer at New Relic As a way to reemphasize our commitment to open source and open standards, we are sharing an exciting development in open source observability. Pixie, a real-time debugging…
The role of cloud native + security – Recap from RSA Conference 2022
Last week, CNCF participated at RSA Conference in San Francisco. As part of the DevOps Connect: DevSecOps co-located event, our GM Priyanka Sharma gave a keynote with Frederick Kautz. In their presentation, Priyanka and Frederick discussed the emergence…
Kubernetes Operators: what are they? Some examples
Guest post originally published on the SparkFabrik blog Kubernetes offers limited initial functionality to ensure flexibility and scalability. K8s Operators are software extensions that make use of Kubernetes APIs to extend behavior. What do we need to know…
Breaking the multi-cloud barrier in a regulated industry
Guest post originally published by Kasper Borg Nissen, Lead Platform Architect at Lunar How Kubernetes and Linkerd became Lunar’s multi-cloud communication backbone At Lunar, a Scandinavian online bank, we embraced cloud native tech early on. We’ve been running…
The components of OpenTelemetry
Guest post originally published on the Scout APM blog by Dave Anderson, CTO, Scout APM Before we dive into the Collector, let’s cover the components that make up the OpenTelemetry project. Scout’s blog post “What is OpenTelemetry” gives…
CNCF Launches Cloud Native Network Function Certification Program
New CNF Test Suite-based program will allow CSPs and telecom organizations to adopt Kubernetes and cloud native tools with confidence VALENCIA, Spain – KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe – May 18, 2022 – The Cloud Native Computing Foundation® (CNCF®),…
OpenTelemetry and Python: A complete instrumentation guide
Guest post originally published on the Timescale blog by James Blackwood-Sewell, Timescale OpenTelemetry is considered by many the future of instrumentation, and it’s not hard to understand why. In a world where successful companies are software companies, the…
Learn OpenTelemetry tracing with this lightweight microservices demo
Guest post originally published in the Timescale Blog by Ramon Guiu and John Pruitt OpenTelemetry is an open source observability framework for cloud-native service and infrastructure instrumentation hosted by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). It has gained a lot…
Configuring OpenTelemetry in Ruby
Guest post by Scout APM OpenTelemetry is enabling a revolution in how Observability data is collected and transmitted. See our What Is OpenTelemetry post on why this is an important inflection point in the Observability space. In this…