2021-11-29¶

Otel in Kubernetes¶

Pavol Loffay on Using OpenTelemetry auto-instrumentation/agents in Kubernetes. Excellent read, check it out!

Kubernetes SLOs¶

In the TNS article SLOs in Kubernetes, 1 Year Later Brian Singer of Nobl9 talks about the state of the game in this area including community and tooling.

Instrument Rust with Otel¶

Stumbled upon this deep-dive article and can recommend: How to instrument a Rust application with OpenTelemetry.

App pipeline o11y¶

In How to add observability to your application pipeline Iwan Price-Evans shares some nice high-level ideas.

ECS OpenTelemetry integration¶

My colleague Rodrigue Koffi describes the newly launched integration for ECS, learn more in Simplifying Amazon ECS monitoring set up with AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry.

Prometheus/Grafana migration¶

In How we migrated our Prometheus and Grafana based monitoring solution to AWS my colleague Djamel Bourokba describes in-depth an interesting migration, moving to the cloud.

OSS continuous profiling¶

Pyroscope is a cool open source continuous profiling platform I came across through CNCF TAG observability.

Athena and Redshift plugins¶

We launched some often asked-for things in our managed Grafana offering at AWS, check out my tweet for details:

... we just launched in Amazon Managed Grafana: from new plugins for Athena, Redshift, Geomap, Cloudflare, Zabbix & SignalFX as well as upgrade to Grafana 8.2.

Kudos to Grafana Labs for the awesome work on open sourcing the plugins with us!

Debugging Prometheus¶

Bastian Widmer has a cool write-up on Debugging Prometheus Memory Usage.

That was it for this edition of the o11y newsletter. Feel free to share news items with me via Twitter—DMs are open if you like to share something in private. Stay safe and hope to see you around next week!