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2023-03-13

The very awesome Martin Thwaites of Honeycomb wrote Understanding Distributed Tracing with a Message Bus, covering OpenTelemetry SpanLinks and their usage in the context of async services. Great read, thanks!

OpenTelemetry connectors

Do you know what a connector in the OpenTelemetry collector is? Well, it's essentially a collector component that consumes telemetry signals as an exporter in one pipeline and emits it as a receiver in another pipeline. Read up on this exciting new component: Connectors.

Strimzi: Kafka tracing

Paolo Patierno posted Tracing in Apache Kafka: from OpenTracing to OpenTelemetry on the Strimzi blog, explaining how to use OpenTelemetry within the Strimzi project.

Tracetest on Nomad

Tracetest in Action: Running Trace-Based Tests on the OpenTelemetry Demo App with Nomad by Adriana Villela of Lightstep is a really cool hands-on piece. Excellent work, thank you!

Observability survey

Grafana Labs published the Observability Survey 2023 and it contains a number of interesting data points, thanks for sharing.

That was it for this edition of the o11y newsletter. Feel free to share news items with me via Twitter—DMs are open if you like to share something in private. Stay safe and hope to see you around next week!