2026-06-22¶
OTel Arrow update¶
Catch up on what is going on in terms of transport efficiency via the official OTel blog: OTel-Arrow Phase 2: From Efficient Transport to Efficient Telemetry Pipelinesd by Laurent Querel, Joshua MacDonald, Reiley Yang, Albert Lockett, Cijo Thomas, Drew Relmas, and Jake Dern has all the details.
NA 2026 o11y summit¶
The session recordings of the Observability Summit North America 2026 are now available on YouTube.
PromCon 2026¶
The PromCon 2026 Call for Speakers is now open until Wed 2026-07-13.
5G RAN telemetry pipeline¶
Armend Avdijaj wrote about Detecting 5G RAN Signal Quality Degradation with OpenTelemetry, GlassFlow, and ClickHouse. Interesting use case!
Agentic SRE¶
The MyDecisive Staff shared a hands-on piece from the agentic SRE space, check out From Contributor to Core Feature: Intelligent Rate Limiting via OTel.
OpAMP in action¶
Open Telemetry Fleet Management or "The Art of Managing Chaos" by Jason Agee is a great read on OpAMP in action.
The history of o11y¶
Really enjoyed reading The Three Pillars of Observability: A History No One Planned (Part 1 of 2) which does a great job providing context on how we got here.
Optimize OTel¶
OpenTelemetry Observability Guide: How to Optimize Metrics, Logs, and Traces at Scale by Tejaswita Soni is a nice overview including hands-on material.
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!