2025-12-08¶

Observable load testing¶

In Introducing Observable Load Testing = Locust + OpenTelemetry! Lars Holmberg explains in a hands-on manner how to apply OTel to a popular load testing tool. Very nice!

OTel collector at scale¶

Elizabeth from SigNoz wrote Patterns for Deploying OTel Collector at Scale, showing the How and discussing pros and cons of the different approaches. Thanks for sharing!

CloudWatch unified data store¶

My colleague Channy Yun on Amazon CloudWatch introduces unified data management and analytics for operations, security, and compliance, one of the many exciting re:Invent 2025 announcements.

OTel panel¶

The good folks from Embrace gather experts again to discuss OTel in depth! Note the Dec 16 for An OTel Carol Past, present, and future of OpenTelemetry.

GOOtel¶

Stumbled upon a really nice piece written by Luca Melandri: read GOOtel: Enhance Your Observability with Ease, where he explains the motivation for developing this simplified OTel library for Go.

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!