2023-06-05¶

O11y stack on Kubernetes¶

Running Observability Stack on Kubernetes by Piotr Mossakowski (GetInData) is a hands-on deep dive on the topic, thank you for the write-up!

Sampling strategies¶

Drew Robbins of Microsoft published Sampling Strategies in Observability, providing the motivation for sampling, discussing strategies, and showing examples.

Return on Investment¶

Maximizing ROI By Reducing Cost of Downstream Observability Platforms With BindPlane OP by Phil Cook puts forward some interesting thoughts.

Application insights¶

Rajesh Vinayagam wrote Observability with OpenTelemetry: Unveiling Insights into Your Applications, covering a lot of ground from the basics to showing OTel in action.

Log file parsing tools¶

In A Guide on Log File Parsing Tools Charlie Klein compares 5 popular log file parsing tools.

OTel end user convo¶

Check out OpenTelemetry Q&A Feat. Iris Dyrmishi of Farfetch where Adriana Villela of the OTel End User Working group speaks with Iris Dyrmishi of Farfetch about adopting OpenTelemetry.

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!