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…
Observability of multi-party computation with OpenTelemetry
You have seen the impact of observability in enhancing the understanding and pace of development of complex systems. With the latest innovation in managing logs through the OpenTelemetry project, we can now combine together multiple blockchain…
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…
How OpenTelemetry is eating the world
It has been said that open source software is eating the world and in the observability space, the project behind this movement is OpenTelemetry. The project recently entered beta and is quickly becoming the standard for…
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…
German ciphers, telegrams, and cloud native data sovereignty
A lesson from 1917 In January 1917, Germany sent a secret telegram. It went to Mexico. The offer: join the war against the United States, and you can have Texas, Arizona and New Mexico back. The…
Cloud Native platform sovereignty through multi-plane architecture
When people talk about cloud sovereignty, the conversation often starts with regions: where a workload runs and where its data is stored. But choosing a region is only part of the story. The architecture of the…
A practical guide to solving when zero+zero=two in mesh observability
A Service Mesh like Istio, together with Kiali gives you a lot on day one. You install the mesh, point Prometheus at it, and suddenly you have request rate, latency, error rate, and a fairly good…
Learning Cloud-Native Engineering Beyond Tutorials Through LFX
I joined the LFX mentorship expecting to spend three months writing documentation. A few weeks later, I was deploying OpenTelemetry Collectors across AWS EC2 instances, debugging networking problems between machines, and trying to understand why a…
Flagship event returns November 9–12 with sessions on production AI, platform engineering and cloud native security Key Highlights SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 7, 2026 – The Cloud Native Computing Foundation® (CNCF®), which builds sustainable ecosystems for cloud…