2026-08-17¶

OpAMP and beyond¶

Phil Wilkins published a nice article via DZone, check out OpenTelemetry's OpAMP Potential Far Beyond Supporting Collectors, explaining the inner workings.

OTel for IoT¶

In OpenTelemetry at the edge: Observability for IoT fleets with Bindplane and Dynatrace Amrith Raj writes about an interesting use case, in detail.

Metric cardinality¶

Via the official OpenTelemetry blog: Metric cardinality limits in OpenTelemetry: a practical guide by Cijo Thomas is an excellent guide on an important topic.

OTel and costs¶

The one and only Juraci Paixão Kröhling discusses cost implications in The Scrape Interval Nobody Choses, well worth a read!

Mapping the network¶

Interesting product update from Sematext: learn about their Network Map feature.

Collector cookbook¶

And Juraci Paixão Kröhling strikes again: check out his Git repo hosting a curated collection of OpenTelemetry Collector recipes.

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