2023-12-11

OTel Q & A

Check out this awesome OTel Q&A Feat. Jennifer Moore via the official OTel YouTube channel and learn from a practioner about OpenTelemetry.

AWS o11y use cases

I love it when end-users share their use cases, requirements, and lessons learned. Two excellent examples are the AWS re:Invent 2023 session Stripe: Architecting for observability at massive scale and Ingesting 6.5 Tb of Telemetry Data Daily Through Open Telemetry Protocol and Collector at VTEX, from the Observability Day at KubeCon EU, earlier in the year.

Naming OTel attributes

Via TNS: Top 5 Best Practices for Naming OpenTelemetry Attributes by Carl Brahms of Chronosphere is a short but useful contribution.

Frontend observability

In Frontend Observability Explained Asim Iqbal Siddiqui provides a quick overview and intro on the topic.

AI goes profiling

Ryan Perry of Grafana Labs on AI-Powered Flamegraph Interpreter in Grafana Pyroscope. Really well done deep dive including an honest take on what AI, in this context, can contribute. Exciting times!

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