2022-04-18¶
OpenTelemetry 101¶
In OpenTelemetry, the standardized observability framework for everyone, Jeffrey Lean provides a quick overview of Otel and shows tracing in action.
Why observability matters¶
Ben Evans of Red Hat has a really well written article called Observability in 2022: Why it matters and how OpenTelemetry can help, covering tools and methods.
AWS App Runner goes Otel¶
My colleague Yiming Peng on Tracing an AWS App Runner service using AWS X-Ray with OpenTelemetry.
Prometheus in action¶
Damian Myerscough shares a rather unusual use case in Monitoring Tesla Solar and Powerwall with Prometheus.
OpenTelemetry in Scala¶
Learn from Lukasz Gajowy about The OpenTelemetry + Mesmer duo: state of the Mesmer project, and how it is enabling observability in Scala.
Log aggregation¶
What Is Log Aggregation: A Complete Guide to Best Practices & Tools You Need to Know by Rafal Kuć is a nice overview and tooling comparison on the topic.
Prometheus metrics deep dive¶
Check out A Deep Dive Into the Four Types of Prometheus Metrics by Ramon Guiu and Vineeth Pothulapati, an excellent hands-on guide, well done!
Profiling Kubernetes¶
Via the CNCF blog: read Continuous profiling in Kubernetes using Pyroscope by Sayed Belal, showing this open source CP tool in action.
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