2023-08-28¶
OpenTelemetry operator¶
In OpenTelemetry Operator — How the operands are upgraded Diego Amaral provides a deep dive walk-through on the inner working of this important Kubernetes custom controller. Thanks!
Trace-based testing for OTel¶
Why did OpenTelemetry Ditch Black-box Tests? by Ken Hamric is a really nice piece motivating and demonstrating trace-based testing.
OTel collector GitHub action¶
Alex Boten shows in Building the Collector, can't someone else do it? how to use a GitHub action to build your own OTel collector distro.
Developer o11y¶
Roni Dover of Digma.ai on Faster code feedback loops with OpenTelemetry, a ca. 1 hour video, via the JetBrains YouTube channel.
Amazon RDS o11y¶
Enhance observability for Amazon RDS Custom for SQL Server using Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus and Amazon Managed Grafana, by my colleagues Mike George and Praneeth Reddy Tekula.
Prometheus cert¶
Via the CNCF blog: Inside Prometheus + the PCA exam gives you some nice insights into the Prometheus Certified Associate (PCA).
Tooling¶
Some exciting OTel tooling I came across:
- nginxinc/nginx-otel provides support for OpenTelemetry distributed tracing in Nginx.
- nimbushq/otel-validator is a VS Code extension that you can use to validate OpenTelemetry collector configuration files.
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!