2022-08-29

Configure Grafana remote DB

Tanmay Bhat strikes again! Check out his article on how to Configure Grafana to Use Remote Database for HA.

NGINX and OpenTelemetry

Via the OpenTelemetry blog: Learn how to instrument NGINX with OpenTelemetry from Debajit Das, Kumar Pratyus, and Severin Neumann.

Tracing Node.js

In How to use OpenTelemetry to trace Node.js applications Annapurna Patil, Helio Frota, and Rashmi Panchamukhi provide a hands-on walkthrough. Thanks!

Tracing RabbitMQ

The Team Aspecto on Distributed Tracing for RabbitMQ with OpenTelemetry, an excellent deep dive on this topic, check it out!

System-wide profiling

System-wide profiling in Parca Agent by Javier Honduvilla Coto is a really nice continuous profiling use case description.

Monitoring ECS on Fargate

My colleague Mai Nishitani has a great YouTube video up, check out Back to Basics: Observability of Container Metrics on Amazon ECS on Fargate.

End-to-end tracing

Nicolas Fränkel on End-to-end tracing with OpenTelemetry, a nice walkthrough.

OTel adoption survey results

As promised, I published the results of the OpenTelemetry adoption survey (N=120) on GitHub now, have a look for yourself: mhausenblas/otel-adoption-survey-2022.

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