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2025-04-14

Monitoring challenges

In OpenTelemetry: Solving Modern Application Monitoring Challenges Ibrahim Cisse motivates monitoring challenges and shows how OTel can help addressing these.

OTel and Postgres

OpenTelemetry Observability in Crunchy Postgres for Kubernetes by Andrew L'Ecuyer discusses database observability with OTel. Nice!

On bad telemetry

The one and only Juraci Paixão Kröhling strikes again: read There's a lot of bad telemetry out there and learn how to deal with inaccurate, irrelevant, and incomplete telemetry.

OpenTelemetry distro builder

Stumbled upon a tool called OpenTelemetry Distribution Builder. Built on top of the OpenTelemetry Collector Builder (OCB), it automates the packaging for multiple platforms and manages version releases via GitHub. Thank you!

KubeCon EU recap

Read KubeCon Europe 2025: OpenTelemetry Recap from London by Adnan Rahic to learn what happened in the community and what you can expect next!

That was it for this edition of the o11y newsletter. Feel free to share news items with me via Bluesky DM. Stay safe and hope to see you around next week!