2025-04-07¶
OTel hands-on¶
Even more OpenTelemetry - Kubernetes special by Nicolas Fränkel is a hands-on deep dive of using OTel in a containerized environment, including collector setup and instrumentation. Thanks!
Why monitoring ...¶
In Why Monitoring and Logging Will Save Your Sanity (Or At Least Your Job) Jotham Arinze motivates and explains usage of AWS native observability services.
OTel sucks/rocks¶
Last week as a KubeCon talk and now the blog post version: OTel Sucks (But Also Rocks!) by Juraci Paixão Kröhling. Recommend to check out the video interviews with practioners that Juraci and Daniel Dyla gathered for their talk.
Migration lessons learned¶
Learn from Ritesh Sonawane and Anjul Sahu of Cloudraft How We Migrated Terabytes of Metrics from InfluxDB to Grafana Mimir: A Complete Observability Overhaul. Thanks for sharing.
Frontend observability¶
The one and only Kate Holterhoff of RedMonk on Is Frontend Observability Hipster RUM?. Great insights on background, personas, and the market.
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