2025-10-13

OTel pipeline for Kubernetes

In Building a Unified OpenTelemetry Pipeline in Kubernetes Fatih Koç provides a hands-on walkthrough on this very relevant topic, thanks!

OTel in Kubernetes 101

Via TNS: How OpenTelemetry Works: Tracing, Metrics and Logs on Kubernetes by Mauricio Salatino. A nice intro and overview article, in case the first article I mentioned doesn't have enough context for you ;)

Log analytics

My colleague Joshua Bright via the OpenSearch project blog: Reimagining log analytics for the modern enterprise.

OTel automatic instrumentation

The one and only Severin Neumann, via the OTel blog: Demystifying Automatic Instrumentation: How the Magic Actually Works. Well explained, thank you!

SLOs with Prometheus

Even more good (and free) stuff on the SLO topic: check out the Free Prometheus Alert Rule Generator, allowing you to generate Prometheus alerting rules and SLOs for comprehensive monitoring.

Salesforce's move to Prometheus

I love learning from other practitioners: read Salesforce Commerce Cloud migrates from Self-hosted Prometheus to Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus by Marcel Beck and Philipp Knobel of Salesforce Commerce Cloud teaming up with my colleagues Maksim Poletaev and Gaurav Acharya.

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