2025-08-04¶

OTel survey¶

Your opportunity to shape OTel's future: fill in the OTel Collector Follow-up Survey by upstream OTel. Likely effort is less than 3 minutes.

Lessons learned¶

Naomi Kriger wrote I Built My Company’s First Monitoring System — Here’s What I Learned and I encourage you to read it. A short but insightful article for practitioners.

Zero-code OTel on JVM¶

OpenTelemetry Tracing on the JVM by Nicolas Fränkel is a nice hands-on contribution, comparing different zero-code (nee autoinstrumentation) OpenTelemetry approaches on the JVM.

Off-CPU profiling¶

Read Frederic Branczyk's Introducing Off-CPU Profiling to learn more about this exciting feature. Congrats!

Datadog log receiver¶

In Datadog Log Receiver for OpenTelemetry Collector Amir Jakoby introduces a new component for the OTel collector.

Good telemetry¶

The one and only Dan Gomez Blanco on What does ‘good’ telemetry look like?. Thanks a lot!

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!