2022-07-04

Making eBPF-based o11y simpler

Krisztian Fekete of Solo.io (previously at LastPass in an SRE role) has put together an interesting piece that I think you should check out if you're interested in eBPF-based observability solutions: Porting eBPF Applications to BumbleBee .

OpenTelemetry overview

Excellent CNCF webinar (both YouTube recording and slide deck) by Reese Lee of New Relic, providing a wonderful overview on the project: OTel Me All About OpenTelemetry.

Kubecost and Prometheus

Via the Kubecost blog, read Prometheus Grafana: Configuration & Query Examples.

Mid-2022 OpenTelemetry status

OpenTelemetry Roadmap and Latest Updates is a very excellent post by the always well-informed Dotan Horovits of Logz.io.

Spanner insights

Learn from Google's Mohit Gulati about Query Insights for Cloud Spanner and how to use it to troubleshoot database performance issues with pre-built dashboards.

OTel end-users

Are you an end-user of OpenTelemetry? Have a look at this blog post: Introducing new resources for OpenTelemetry end users to connect and discover best practices and let me know if you have any questions?

OTel, Prometheus and Jaeger

Guilherme R Pereira managed to get all my fav OSS projects into one post (grats!?). Seriously though, check out Telemetry with OpenTelemetry, Prometheus and Jaeger, a well-written deep dive.

GitHub Action to OTLP

Alex Boten of Lightstep, OpenTelemetry book author and awesome engineer has a little project up on GitHub that you may want to have a look at. It outputs GitHub Action workflows and jobs details to OTLP, via gRPC..

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