2026-01-19

OTel for traditional envs

From the official OTel blog: read Demystifying OpenTelemetry: Why You Shouldn’t Fear Observability in Traditional Environments by Lukasz Ciukaj, where 3 myths are debunked.

Operational maturity

The one and only Andrew Mallaband strikes again: From Visibility to Control, Why Operational Maturity Is Now the Constraint.

OTel collector at scale

The Bindplane Team shared Bindplane + ClickStack: Operating OpenTelemetry collectors at scale.

OTel adoption challenges

Whenever Juraci Paixão Kröhling writes something, it's a good idea to read it. This time around he shared an analysis on adoption pain points: What 10,000 Slack Messages Reveal About OpenTelemetry Adoption Challenges.

Jaeger v2 series

Check out the Jaeger v2/OTel series by Mark Johnson, starting with Part 1 – Why Jaeger v2, OpenTelemetry, and GitOps Belong Together.

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