2023-06-26

OpenTelemetry PyCon talk

How To Monitor and Troubleshoot Applications using OpenTelemetry by Ron Nathaniel is a PyCon talk, covering all things OTel from instrumentation to the collector. Nice!

Tail CloudWatch logs

Live tailing CloudWatch logs? Yup, that's possible now and the One Observability Workshop has a new section dedicated to it, so give it a try!

O11y for productivity

Impact of Observability Practices on Engineering Productivity by Blocktorch is a short but interesting take on how o11y can improve your productivity.

OTel .NET basics

MyHumbleCoder published OpenTelemetry Basics in Net6, a useful hands-on getting started guide. Thanks!

Custom host metrics

Julius Volz strikes again: watch Exposing Custom Host Metrics Using the Prometheus Node Exporter up on YouTube to learn hands-on how to go about it.

.NET OTel demo

A nice end-to-end demo using Docker Compose by Glenn Versweyveld: check out the GitHub repo Depechie/OpenTelemetryGrafana to see logs, metrics, and traces with OpenTelemetry in action.

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