2025-01-27

OTel Go instrumentation

Via the official OTel blog: Alibaba, Datadog, and Quesma Join Forces on Go Compile-Time Instrumentations. Exciting!

Monitoring Apache Kafka

Kafka End-to-End Monitoring by SPOUD. Great insights and lessons learned.

Spring Boot app instrumentation

In Instrumenting Spring applications with OpenTelemetry and Cloud Native Buildpacks the magnificent Michele Mancioppi shares hands-on advice. Thanks for sharing!

OTel panel

Another excellent practitioners panel you should add to your calendar: In love with OTel and observability, happening on Tue 2/11 at 10am PST.

OTel collector deep dive

OpenTelemetry Collector persistence and retry mechanisms under the hood by Bence Csáti is an awesome hands-on deep dive.

Windows monitoring with OTel

In Monitoring Windows Servers With the OpenTelemetry Collector the one and only Martin Thwaites explains all the details.

eBPF-based network o11y

eBPF-Based Network Observability: Exploring Cilium Hubble and Alternatives by Anish Bista is a deep dive, hands-on guide on the topic.

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