2025-09-01¶

Metrics in OTel¶

In What are metrics in OpenTelemetry: A Complete Guide, Neel Patel provides a very nice intro into OTel metrics, including lots of hands-on bits and good practices.

67-Second OTel problem¶

The 67-Second OpenTelemetry Problem by Itay Oved is a good reminder that just because something is powerful, adoption does not necessarily follow. Good food for thoughts ...

OTel collector hands-on¶

Watch the recording of Bindplane's OpenTelemetry Deep Dive: Resilience & High Availability in the OTel Collector event, ca. 1h recording available via YouTube. Thanks for sharing!

Software reliability¶

The one and only Andrew Mallaband published Unmanaged Change: The Silent Killer of Software Reliability (and How to Stop It). DevEx and observability is an sometimes under-appreciated topic.

OpenSearch PPL in CloudWatch¶

My colleagues Joe Alioto and Dot Ho wrote Advanced analytics using Amazon CloudWatch Logs Insights, walking you through the key capabilities from OpenSearch PPL and SQL to query logs.

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!