2023-02-27

Parsing Syslog with Fluentd

Tanmay Bhat wrote An Overview of Syslog Parsing with Fluentd, a hands-on piece you will want to check out if you're using Fluentd.

OTel with event sourcing

Set up OpenTelemetry with Event Sourcing and Marten by Oskar Dudycz is a really well done deep dive on the topic, kudos!

Auto-instrumenting .NET apps

Rahul Rai of Twilio on Automatic Instrumentation of Containerized .NET Applications With OpenTelemetry. This is an excellent hands-on deep dive and I strongly recommend to peruse it if you're into the .NET ecosystem.

Monitoring Kubernetes costs

The one and only Matt Ray (Senior Community Manager for OpenCost) was a guest at a recent OpenObservability talks session. To learn more, listen and/or watch the episode FinOps Observability: Monitoring Kubernetes Cost.

Unit metrics AWS infra

My colleagues Burak Gozluklu, Carlos Galan, Aditya Pendyala, and Siddharth Pasumarthy wrote Choose, create, and track your unit metrics for your applications, a hands-on guide to learn about the right metrics for assessing the economics of your AWS infrastructure.

ZincSearch

Stumbled upon ZincSearch, a search engine you can be use for telemetry signals including logs and metrics.

Metrics to traces

Devrim Demiroz wrote Pathways— Metrics to Traces, an interesting exploration (using OpenTelemetry) on a timely topic, check it out!

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