2023-09-04¶

eBPF for o11y¶

Learn from Frederic Branczyk how to do zero-effort telemetry collection via this wonderful QConPlus talk and article: Sprinkling eBPF onto Your Observability.

Start contributing to OTel¶

How Can I Contribute to OpenTelemetry? asks the amazing Adri Villela and, more importantly, she provides detailed guidance on why, how, and where to do so. Thanks a lot!

Instant distributed tracing¶

Check out Instant Distributed Traces with Odigos, a super short and interesting YouTube video showing auto-instrumentation in action.

A Fluent status¶

Dotan Horovits' OpenObservability Talks are always a good choice and this episode with Eduardo Silva of Calyptia is no exception. Recommend to watch and/or listed to What’s New with Fluentd & Fluent Bit.

OTel for .NET developers¶

Message processing failed ... But what's the root cause? by Laila Bougria is an excellent deep dive on observability tools and techniques, originally a .NET Enterprise Developer Day session and now available on YouTube.

StatsD into Prometheus¶

In Collecting Prometheus metrics from multi-process web servers, the Ruby case Michal Kazmierczak provides a hands-on walkthrough on how to use StatsD for metric collection and ingest the metrics into Prometheus.

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!