2024-06-03¶

Booking.com’s o11y platform¶

Santanu Sahoo shared Events: The 4th pillar of Booking.com’s Observability platform where he describes Booking.com's proprietary solution for o11y events that allows them to generate traces, logs, and metrics to fulfil the majority of their observability needs, as well as why they are looking into moving to OpenTelemetry.

OTel Java metrics performance¶

OpenTelemetry Java Metrics Performance Comparison by Jack Berg, via the official OpenTelemetry blog. Contains a number of interesting benchmarks, recommend to take a look.

Promxy + Cortex¶

In Prometheus At Scale with Promxy + Cortex Mahdi Mallaki discusses a useful architectural pattern and shows it in action. Thanks!

Debugging Langchain apps¶

Yemi Adejumobi on Tracing & Debugging your Langchain Apps using Langtrace. Langtrace is an open-source observability and evaluation tool for AI applications, especially of interest for you if you're handling LLMs.

Test observability for Lambda¶

Check out Test Observability for AWS Lambda with Grafana Tempo and OpenTelemetry Layers by Oscar Reyes, a hands-on deep dive on the topic.

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!