2025-03-10

OTel at KubeCon EU 2025

If you're around at KubeCon EU 2025 in London, beginning of April, consider to Join us for OpenTelemetry Talks and Activities. In this blog post via the official OTel blog, Tiffany Hrabusa walks you trough activities, from talks to maintainer sessions to the Observability Day on April 1 (no joke).

Storing OTel in S3

Mark Sta Ana maintains a very cool OTel playground to experiment with the OTel collector. Check out the Storing telemetry in blob storage experiment, think data lake for offline processing.

Spam filters in Dash0

Learn from the always amazing Michele Mancioppi about a new feature that landed in Dash0: Spam filters.

OTel 101

OTel Me Why by Leon Adato explains why they are so excited about OTel and provides a nice overview and introduction into the ecosystem.

AI agent observability

I get this question from our customers more and more often and so I'm happy that I can now point them to an official place in the context of OTel. Read AI Agent Observability - Evolving Standards and Best Practices by Guangya Liu and Sujay Solomon, where they explain the current state of AI agent observability and share good practices.

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