2026-02-23

OTel for troubleshooting

Read Troubleshooting Microservices with OpenTelemetry Distributed Tracing by the Sematext team, covering practical troubleshooting patterns for production microservices, including latency issues and retry storms.

Hands-on OTel

Stumbled upon otelstarter.com, containing copy and past configurations for 12+ frameworks across 4 languages to get you started with OTel in a hands-on manner.

Control loops 2

The one and only Andrew Mallaband shared another one of his articles, wrapping up the series with From Observability to Control Loops Part 2: The Risk of Blind Autonomy.

Nginx logs

Chelsea Wright wrote Bindplane Blueprints for Elasticsearch: Production-Ready NGINX Log Pipelines for Kibana, showing you how to harness log volume and noise for Nginx.

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