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Making observability fun: How we increased engineers' confidence in incident management using a game
Monday, February 26, 2024 in 2024
At Skyscanner, as in many organizations, teams tend to follow specific runbooks for individual failure modes. With modern and complex distributed systems, this has the downside of most of the errors being unknowns, which makes runbooks only partially …
Outreachy - How, When & Why?
Wednesday, January 17, 2024 in 2024
The OpenTelemetry maintainers are excited to have Sakshi Patle join our project as an intern via the Outreachy program. In this blog post, you can learn why Sakshi chose to apply for the Outreachy program and to contribute towards OpenTelemetry. If …
The Humans of OpenTelemetry
Friday, December 22, 2023 in 2023
What a year it has been for OpenTelemetry! The OTel Demo turned 1, the OpenTelemetry project announced general availability of the OpenTelemetry specification, Trace-Based Testing was added to the OTel Demo, we saw some exciting OTel integrations, …
Observe your Spring Native Image application with OpenTelemetry
Friday, December 08, 2023 in 2023
The OpenTelemetry Java agent is a convenient and well-established way to instrument Java applications. However, as of today it is not possible to use it with GraalVM Native Images. To provide you with an easy and seamless way for Spring Boot Native …
OpenTelemetry in Focus: Wrapping Up a Successful 2023
Wednesday, December 06, 2023 in 2023
As we approach the end of an eventful year, we’re announcing that “OpenTelemetry in Focus”, our platform for sharing updates about the OpenTelemetry project, is taking an end-of-year break after ten successful editions in 2023. Over …
Receive any custom metric with the OpenTelemetry Collector
Thursday, November 30, 2023 in 2023
While OpenTelemetry (OTel) is here to help you with troubleshooting and handling the “unknown unknowns”, it is also instrumental for managing route tasks like monitoring system metrics, like disk usage, server availability or SSL …
OTel component performance benchmarks
Monday, November 27, 2023 in 2023
As more and more users are looking to use OpenTelemetry instrumentation in their production deployments, one important consideration is the impact that OpenTelemetry will have on their application performance. In this blog post I will discuss a few …
Collecting Logs with OpenTelemetry Python
Tuesday, November 21, 2023 in 2023
In the following, we will walk through how to do logs collection with OpenTelemetry (OTel). To keep things simple, we will use Python as the demonstration programming language, however note that at time of writing the logs support there is still …
Adding OpenTelemetry support to the Otterize network mapper
Friday, November 17, 2023 in 2023
OTel integration! A no-brainer integration: Adding OpenTelemetry support to the Otterize network mapper Otterize automates workload Identity and Access Management (IAM) for zero-trust, automating policies like Kubernetes network policies, Istio …
Achieve a 10x Reduction in Telemetry Traffic Using OpenTelemetry Protocol with Apache Arrow
Tuesday, November 14, 2023 in 2023
We are thrilled to unveil the OpenTelemetry Protocol with Apache Arrow, which is based on Apache Arrow, a columnar-oriented memory format used for developing analytics applications. This integration facilitates a reduction in telemetry data traffic …