2023-08-07¶

Service mesh observability¶

In Service Mesh for Developers: Exploring the Power of Observability and OpenTelemetry Antonio Berben explains service mesh observability with OpenTelemetry. Thanks!

Monitoring Istio¶

Continuing with service mesh observability, there is a new Terraform module available in the AWS Observability Accelerator: Monitor Istio running on Amazon EKS.

Prometheus unit testing¶

Misha Griffiths on Unit Testing Alerting with the Prometheus Operator, a practical walkthrough you want to check out.

Kubernetes control plane tracing¶

Via the CNCF blog: learn from Jonathan Chan about Kelemetry: global tracing for Kubernetes control plane.

OTel auto-instrumentation¶

The one and only Adri Villela published Let’s Learn About Auto-Instrumentation with the OTel Operator!, a great hands-on resource I can recommend.

Fluent Bit community survey¶

If you have a few minutes, consider participating in the Fluent Bit community survey, it will help the Fluent project maintainers better understand the needs of the community and how to best provide strategic direction for contributors.

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