2024-08-12

React app OTel instrumentation

Via the CNCF blog: Learn How to add OTel instrumentation to a React Native app from Jonathan Munz, Senior Software Engineer at Embrace.

Elastic and OTel

In Assistant, OTel, and log quality enhancements Alex Fedotyev, Tom Grabowski, Vinay Chandrasekhar, and Miguel Luna report on Elastic's native OpenTelemetry capabilities.

Explainability

Explainability: The Black Box Dilemma in the Real World by Andrew Mallaband is a nice piece on an important topic.

Version observability?

The one and only Charity Majors published another thought-provoking article: read Is It Time To Version Observability?

PromCon EU 2024

Quick PSA: the schedule of PromCon EU 2024 is now online. Exciting talks ahead!

Synthetic Monitoring with OTel

Tracetest Monitors: Synthetic Monitoring with OpenTelemetry and Playwright by Jorge Padilla tackles an interesting topic hands-on.

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