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2024-10-28

The State of Profiling

Exciting update via the OpenTelemetry blog: read The State of Profiling by Damien Mathieu, Pablo Baeyens, Felix Geisendörfer, Christos Kalkanis, Morgan McLean, Florian Lehner, and Tim Rühsen to learn about the progress the SIG Profiling made concerning adding profiles as a new telemetry signal type to OTel.

Stripe: observability at scale

Cody Rioux and Michael Cowgill of Stripe teamed up with my colleagues Hasan Tariq, Ballu Singh, and Mateus Prado to share How Stripe architected massive scale observability solution on AWS. Great lessons learned!

Guide to wide events

Jeremy Morrell put together A Practitioner's Guide to Wide Events, explaining both the concept and showing it in action.

ClickHouse JSON improvements

How we built a new powerful JSON data type for ClickHouse by Pavel Kruglov explains why ClickHouse introduced an enhanced JSON data type for observability use cases.

Lambda tracing with OTel

In Send Lambda traces to Grafana Cloud with OpenTelemetry Kamel Djoudi provides a hands-on walkthrough on the topic. Thanks for sharing!


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