2024-07-08¶
OTel community day¶
In OTel Community Day '24 Paige Cruz shared details about this awesome event, including sessions and learnings. Thanks a lot for the write-up and I do hope that we can organize similar events across the globe, such as in EMEA and APAC geos.
Reduce telemetry data¶
How to Reduce Telemetry Data Produced by Your App by Maciej Nawrocki is a short but interesting article on strategies on how to tame telemetry collection and ingestion costs, focusing on metrics and traces.
Distributed context propagation¶
Check out the Monitorama PDX 2024 session Distributed Context Propagation: How you can use it to Improve Observability. In this 31 min recording available on YouTube, J. Kalyana Sundaram presents the work of the W3C Distributed Tracing Working Group, covering labelling synthetic traffic, chaos engineering, and attributing infrastructure spend.
OTel for Airflow monitoring¶
Reese Lee via the New Relic blog: Using OpenTelemetry to monitor Apache Airflow is a hands-on deep dive on the topic. Thanks for sharing!
Observable lightning talks¶
Observable Lightning Talks June 2024, hosted by Henrik Rexed, is a YouTube video featuring three talks: 1. Tail Sampling, 2. What's Falco?, and 3. Closing the Tracing Gap for PostgreSQL.
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!