2025-06-09¶
Exposing OTel Collector¶
Via the official OpenTelemetry blog: in Exposing OTel Collector in Kubernetes with Gateway API & mTLS Vipin Vijaykumar explains how to expose an OpenTelemetry collector running on Kubernetes to the outside world, securely.
Log enrichment with OTel¶
Enriching Logs with GeoIP in OpenTelemetry Collector: A Practical Guide by Diego Amaral is an excellent hands-on article. Thank you!
Purposeful instrumentation¶
The one and only Juraci Paixão Kröhling continues his series: check out Concrete Applications of Purposeful Instrumentation to learn how to implement the recommendations shared in the previous part.
RCA in action¶
Dhairya Dalal wrote Alarm Suppression is Not Root Cause Analysis, sharing thoughts and guidance on an important topic.
Database monitoring¶
My colleagues Michael Wishart and Joe Alioto talked about how to Streamline Database Monitoring with Amazon CloudWatch Database Insights, and now that's available via a 40 min YouTube video.
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