Understand OpenTelemetry part 3: data sources
Guest post originally published on the New Relic blog by Alan West and Lavanya Chockalingam This blog post is part of the Understand OpenTelemetry series. Part 1 provided an overview to OpenTelemetry and why it is the future of instrumentation. Part 2 explored some of the…
OpenTelemetry becomes a CNCF incubating project
The CNCF Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) has voted to accept OpenTelemetry as a CNCF incubating project. OpenTelemetry is an observability framework for cloud native software. It is a collection of tools, APIs, and SDKs that can be used…
Understand OpenTelemetry part 2: core components
Guest post originally published on New Relic’s blog by Alan West and Lavanya Chockalingam This blog post is part of the Understand OpenTelemetry series. Part 1 gave an overview to OpenTelemetry and discussed why it is the future of instrumentation. Now in Part 2,…
Trace-based testing with OpenTelemetry: Meet open source Malabi
Community guest post by Yuri Shkuro, creator and maintainer of Jaeger, and Michael Haberman, Co-Founder & CTO of Aspecto If you deal with distributed applications at scale, you probably use tracing. And if you use tracing data, you…
Cloud Native Computing Foundation Announces Grafana Labs Upgrades Membership to Platinum
Leader in observability demonstrates commitment to collaborating on leading-edge solutions for cloud native workloads SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. – July 28, 2021 – The Cloud Native Computing Foundation® (CNCF®), which builds sustainable ecosystems for cloud native software, today announced…
Kubernetes defines operators as software extensions that make use of custom resources to manage applications and their components. They have quickly become one of the most popular ways for users to adopt and extend Kubernetes as their infrastructure…
Networking with a service mesh: use cases, best practices, and comparison of top mesh options
Guest post by Amir Kaushansky, VP Product, ARMO Service mesh technology emerged with the popularization of microservice architectures. Because service mesh facilitates the separation of networking from the business logic, it enables you to focus on your application’s…
Automate service mesh observability with Kuma
Guest post originally published on Kong’s blog by Marco Palladino, CTO at Kong The more services you have running across different clouds and Kubernetes clusters, the harder it is to ensure that you have a central place to collect service…
Are you tracking Kubernetes application effectively?
Guest post by Leonid Sandler, CTO and Co-Founder at ARMO Distributed tracing, like logging and observability, is a key functionality for keeping your services healthy and predictable. Contrary to logs and observability, which shows what happens on a…
emissary-ingress (formerly Ambassador) is now a CNCF incubating project
The CNCF Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) has voted to accept emissary-ingress as a CNCF incubating project. Emissary-ingress, formerly known as Ambassador, is an open source ingress controller and API Gateway for Kubernetes. It is built on Envoy Proxy…