2025-06-02

OpenSearch and OpenTelemetry

In ELK alternative: Modern log management setup with OpenTelemetry and OpenSearch Malay Hazarika motivates the observability stack and shows how to set up the components.

Warner Bros. Discovery

Keeping the Stories Flowing at Warner Bros. Discovery by Tom Leaman is a fascinating account of an end-user observability journey, shared by a practioner. Thanks a lot!

Bindplane launch week

Adnan Rahic on Bindplane Launch Week 1: Daily Releases Begin June 2nd, looks like some cool stuff coming out this week ;)

OTTL guide

Ben Blackmore wrote Mastering the OpenTelemetry Transformation Language (OTTL), an extremely useful hands-on article, much appreciated!

Detecting reliability problems

Prequel is open sourcing CRE and preq, helping you to detect reliability problems. Congrats!

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