2024-08-05

OTel hands-on guide

Via DZone, Eric D. Schabell published A Hands-On Guide to OpenTelemetry: Using Automatic Instrumentation. This short but useful article demonstrates Python auto-instrumentation end-to-end, in action.

OTel audit

PSA: the OpenTelemetry audit is complete. Check out this Open Source Technology Improvement Fund (OSTIF) report to learn about the findings.

Checkly's Series B

In Announcing $20M to Enable Engineers to Detect and Resolve Issues 10x Faster With Checkly CEO Hannes Lenke provides some context on this OTel-centric startup. Congrats!

otelify.sh

Severin Neumann of Cisco released a really interesting little tool: check out otelify.sh, a shell script that allows you to instrument applications without the need to touch the code.

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