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 or inconceivable to suggest…
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 applications, and you know…
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 OpenTelemetry ecosystem and its…
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 provider-agnostic observability solution…
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, prototyping, more discussion, and…
Improving Arm64 support in CNCF projects with OCI credits
In recent years, Arm64 has been taking the cloud service provider world by storm. Recent reports indicate that, as of the end of 2025, over 50% of new instances on AWS and over 33% on Azure…
Dynamic configuration for cloud native Swift services
Modern Swift services increasingly run alongside the same cloud native infrastructure stacks that power much of today’s Kubernetes ecosystem — including ConfigMaps, containerized workloads, declarative deployments, and service lifecycle management. Projects such as Prometheus and OpenTelemetry…
Modern software delivery is no longer constrained by application code — it is constrained by the platform that runs it. This article presents the design of a cloud-native Internal Developer Platform (IDP) built on Kubernetes and…
Designing end-to-end ingress request tracing for multi-tenant SaaS platforms
Modern SaaS platforms built on cloud‑native architectures frequently consist of dozens of independently deployed microservices. A single customer request entering the platform at the ingress layer may traverse authentication services, orchestration engines, data services, and downstream…