2025-01-20¶
Observability challenge¶
Check out the Application Observability Code Challenges by Cees Bos. Thanks a lot for putting this together, what a wonderful idea!
Instrumentation learnings¶
How much instrumentation is enough / when am I done? asks Toshok and shares some learnings on the topic. In the same direction, Tom Elliott argues that Less is more with OpenTelemetry spans, sharing good practices.
Practitioner on OTel¶
Learn from Diana Todea, an SRE, about their experience with OpenTelemetry: I played with OTEL and I liked it.
Grafana Labs & OTel¶
The one and only Marylia Gutierrez shared OpenTelemetry and Grafana Labs: what’s new and what’s next in 2025. Exciting!
Nginx goes OTel¶
In Assembling an OpenTelemetry NGINX Ingress Controller Integration Roger Coll explores how to set up an NGINX Ingress Controller - OpenTelemetry integration including configuration, key transformations, and upcoming enhancements.
Metricshub¶
Everything You Need to Know About MetricsHub by Isabelle Guitton is a nice product introduction and overview.
HN discussing OTel¶
I bet you like the orange site as much as the next person. Well, I have some news for you: a HN thread titled I got OpenTelemetry to work. But why was it so complicated?. Learning oppty, I suppose ;)
That was it for this edition of the o11y newsletter. Feel free to share news items with me via Bluesky DM. Stay safe and hope to see you around next week!