2025-08-11¶
OTel configuration gotchas¶
Nicolas Fränkel strikes again: read OpenTelemetry configuration gotchas and learn about some good practices.
Counting the cost of inaction¶
Andrew Mallaband wrote Counting the Cost of Inaction: A Financial Case for Investing in Observability and I recommend you read it.
How to name spans¶
How to Name Your Spans by the one and only Juraci Paixão Kröhling is a really excellent hands-on resource. Thank you!
Happy birthday, Jaeger!¶
So I learned that Jaeger turned 10 and thought we should celebrate together. Read Jaeger at 10: Forged in Community, Reborn in OpenTelemetry by Yuri Shkuro and Jonah Kowall and/or watch From Chaos to Clarity: Mastering Distributed Systems with Jaeger with Whitney Lee and Jonah Kowall.
Resilience in telemetry pipelines¶
Maestro Andy Keller on Resilience with Zero Data Loss in High-Volume Telemetry Pipelines with OpenTelemetry and Bindplane with great insights on this tricky topic.
How auto-instrumentation works¶
In Demystifying Automatic Instrumentation: How the Magic Actually Works the magnificent Severin Neumann explains OTel auto-instrumentation including how eBPF is used. KUTGW!
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