2021-09-27

GitHub traffic monitoring

Daniel Gonzalez Lopes shows how to use Grafana and Prometheus to monitor the traffic of GitHub repositories.

On call good practices

In The New Stack piece On Call? Here’s How to Stay Healthy While Carrying the Pager Hannah Culver shares great insights and tips around this topic. Check it out!

Single-node monitoring

In Below: a time travelling resource monitoring tool Facebook engineering introduces a new, cgroup v2 aware single-node text UI monitoring tool with replay capabilities and systemd integration.

Forecast report

Janakiram MSV reviews the 10 Key Takeaways From New Relic’s Observability Forecast Report in this Forbes article.

OpenTelemetry collector

Great community work: Alolita Sharma on how OpenTelemetry Collector achieves Tracing stability milestone. Congrats and looking forward to see the work around metrics wrapping up soon ;)

Cortex series deletion

In Building a series deletion API in Cortex Ilan Gofman, an intern in our service team, reports on their work around designing and implementing this new and exciting Cortex feature.

GitHub build tracing

Alex Boten shows a great use case for tracing of builds in action, read about OpenTelemetry + GitHub Actions: Observability for your builds.

Dynatrace on Otel

In Analyze AWS applications end to end with Dynatrace using AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry Sonja Chevre reports on this intestring integration.

Tracing with Tempo

Simon Aronsson gives an intro to distributed tracing with Tempo, OpenTelemetry, and Grafana Cloud. Nice!

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