2025-03-17¶
OTTL playground¶
OpenTelemetry Transformation Language (OTTL) is OTel's domain-specific programming language allowing you to process data with OpenTelemetry-native concepts and constructs. Now, there is an OTTL playground available online, for you to experiment and understand what's going on. Very awesome, thanks!
OSS incident management¶
Stumbled upon Versus Incident, an open-source (OSS) incident management system with multi-channel alerting capabilities, currently supporting Slack, Microsoft Teams, Telegram, and e-mail.
Kubernetes logs¶
Ahmet Furkan Demir wrote Kubernetes with Data Engineering approach — 4 Log Collection in Kubernetes with Loki, Promtail, MinIO, and Grafana, a nice hands-on piece, demonstrating open-source tooling in action.
Observability and AI¶
In From Reactive to Predictive: Entering the AI Era of Observability Megan Reynolds explains the market and developments in the space. Thank you!
Redacting sensitive info with OTel¶
The OpenTelemetry collector playground has a new experiment and I think you may want to check that out: Redacting sensitive information.
Prometheus from 0 to prod¶
In Scaling Prometheus: From Single Node to Enterprise-Grade Observability Gaurav Maheshwari walks you through using Prometheus and compares common horizontally scalable options such as CNCF Cortex or federation.
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