2023-01-09

Structured logging

Observability with Structured logging by Saiyantan Ghosh provides a nice hands-on intro into the topic, using the ELK stack.

CloudWatch alarms

In Integrate Amazon CloudWatch alarms with Amazon CloudWatch Metrics Insights my colleagues Kelvin Amenya and Siddharth Josh show a common use case in action.

Observability ROI

Hardik Shah discusses Return on investment (ROI) of solutions in Unlock Your Business’s Cloud-Based Potential with Observability.

Prometheus to OTel migration

Migrating a JVM application from Prometheus metrics to OpenTelemetry by Gaël Jourdan-Weil provides the Why and (step-by-step) How to go about the migration. Thanks for sharing!

OTel trace visualization

Stumbled upon this useful online tool by Helios: OpenTelemetry trace visualization tool.

eBPF based service map

Groundcover launched a new tool called Caretta that creates a network map of services running in an Kubernetes cluster, using eBPF. Check out Navigate your way to production bliss with Caretta by Udi Rot to learn more.

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