2023-12-18

Observability at Julius Baer

Observability at Julius Baer by Nick Wallner is an incredibly useful and clear end-user contribution why observability matters and how to prioritize things.

OTel 101

Ruturaj Shitole wrote Simple OpenTelemetry setup in a Kubernetes environment, providing a nice overview and end-to-end introduction into OpenTelemetry using a simple Python app.

Trace-based test & filtering

OpenTelemetry Collector's New Filter Processors by Matheus Nogueira is a short but interesting article discussing filtering in the context of trace-based tests.

AWS o11y updates

My colleague Amer Al Okeh shows how to Automate the creation of AWS Support cases using Amazon CloudWatch alarms and Amazon Bedrock and in How to monitor application health using SLOs with Amazon CloudWatch Application Signals my colleagues Megan Velez Rivera, Andreas Bloomquist, and Garret Johnson cover in detail the new SLO offering in CloudWatch.

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