2023-05-01

Connecting dots using OTel

Mohit Shukla wrote Connecting the dots using OpenTelemetry from an end-user perspective.

My observability journey

My Observability Journey by Oliver Edelmann of Mercedes-Benz is another end-user contrib.

Prometheus performance

David Calvert on Prometheus’ performance and cardinality in practice, a detailed walk-through.

UI for OpenTelemetry

The one and only Alex Boten sharing: A user interface for OpenTelemetry. Yay!

Frontend o11y with Grafana Faro

From the Mayflower team: Frontend Observability with Grafana Faro.

App o11y with Grafana & OTel

Maciej Nawrocki on How to Improve Your App Observability (Easily) with Grafana and OpenTelemetry, a nice deep-dive.

Spot bad commits

Evan Schwartz strikes again: autometrics-rs 0.4: Spot commits that introduce errors or slow down your application.

State of OTel in the browser

Observable Frontends: the State of OpenTelemetry in the Browser is a super interesting article by Jessica Kerr.

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