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…
Kyverno moves to the CNCF Incubator
The CNCF Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) has voted to accept Kyverno as a CNCF incubating project. Kyverno is a policy engine designed for Kubernetes. Policies provide security and automation and simplify managing Kubernetes configurations across developers, operators, and…
CNCF congratulates 36 successful interns with Spring Term LFX Program!
After an exciting Spring term, 36 interns have graduated from the latest LFX mentorship program funded by CNCF! 15 of CNCF’s Graduated, Incubating, and Sandbox projects joined this round with projects including Chaos Mesh, Kubernetes, KubeEdge and Pixie. …
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…
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…
Cloud Native Computing Foundation hits 800 Member Milestone at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2022
An additional 37 organizations have joined the Foundation this quarter to make cloud native computing ubiquitous and accessible to all VALENCIA, Spain. – KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe – May 18, 2022 – The Cloud Native Computing Foundation® (CNCF®),…
Prometheus Certified Associate (PCA)
The Prometheus Certified Associate (PCA) exam demonstrates an engineer’s foundational knowledge of observability and skills using Prometheus, the open source systems monitoring and alerting toolkit. The PCA is a pre-professional certification designed for an engineer or application developer with special…
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…
KubeVirt becomes a CNCF incubating project
The CNCF Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) has voted to accept KubeVirt as a CNCF incubating project. KubeVirt enables users to run virtual machine workloads on top of Kubernetes in a Kubernetes-native way. It allows the migration of legacy…