2024-04-15

KubeCon EU 2024 videos

The session recordings of the recent KubeCon EU 2024, including all the wonderful contributions from the observability space, are now available for you to watch on YouTube.

OTel for Java

Why is OpenTelemetry important for Java applications? asks Saeed Zarinfam and provides answers ranging from instrumentation to the collector. Thanks!

eBPF top

Are you using eBPF? I suppose, you may have a few eBPF programs running in your kernel then? Check out Netflix/bpftop, a sort of top for eBPF programs.

Signals' gameday

Danielle Leong wrote Inside the gamedays: how we tested Signals for reliability where they share some interesting, o11y-related insights.

Ansible for OTel collectors

Via the OpenTelemetry blog: Manage OpenTelemetry Collectors at scale with Ansible by Ishan Jain, including hands-on steps using the resulting telemetry in an open-source stack.

Fluent Bit 3.0

The one and only Henrik Rexed strikes again: in the 20 min video Fluent Bit 3.0 Observability: Elevating Logs, Metrics, and Traces! he shows logs and metrics in action.

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