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2024-12-23

Monitoring Apache Kafka

M. Cagri AKTAS wrote Monitoring Kafka Clusters: Setup Guide for JMX Exporter, Prometheus, and Grafana, a step-by-step tutorial to set up an open-source observability stack for Apache Kafka. Nice work, thank you!

OTel sum connector

In Introduction to the OpenTelemetry Sum Connector Jeremy Hicks explains a new OTel collector component that allows you to create sums from attributes attached to logs and spans. Jeremy not only shows how it works in action but also discusses use cases.

Observability 3.0?

The Future of Observability: Observability 3.0 by Hazel Weakly is an opinion piece that I'd invite you to read and reflect on. Hazel makes the point that the focus should shift to deriving business value beyond engineering by enabling effective actions based on the insights. Also, data lakes. The latter is something I keep running into more often, recently.

OpenSearchCon 2025

The OpenSearchCon Europe CfP is now open and will close on Jan 19 2025, with one of the focus areas being observability. OpenSearchCon Europe will take place in Amsterdam Apr 30 and May 1. Submit early, submit often ;)

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