2025-03-31

OTel in practice

I found Wiard van Rij's OpenTelemetry in Practice: Useful, But Not the Endgame for Users insightful. Thanks for the write-up!

Thoughts on dashboards

Dashboards are Dead! by Gaurav Maheshwari has some thoughts on dashboards. While the headline is a little much, worth to reflect on it.

Observability with OTel

Ismael Martinez provided a nice high-level overview on Observability with OpenTelemetry.

101 o11y guide

Check out A Beginner's Guide to Observability in Cloud Native Applications, a useful hands-on contribution by Victoria Nduka.

Pomerium and OTel

It's great to see how projects and products all around add support for OpenTelemetry. The most recent examples I came across is the Pomerium v0.29.0 announcement, focusing on distributed traces.

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