2024-09-30

OpenTelemetry journey

OpenTelemetry Journey by Magsther is a really insightful article by an end-user. The author describes their OTel journey, covering Highs & Lows. Thank you for sharing this!

React app using OTel

Via TNS: read Instrumenting a React App Using OpenTelemetry by Joaquín Díaz. Learn how to add auto-instrumentation and how to manually add instrumentation for traces and metrics.

Prometheus OTel training

The one and only Julius Volz published another excellent training: check out Instrumenting Applications (OpenTelemetry) to learn how to use the OpenTelemetry APIs and SDKs from within your apps to track and expose metrics to Prometheus.

Predictable observability

Oskar Dudycz wrote Making your system observability predictable, a hands-on resource with many great "further reading" resources.

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