2026-09-28¶

OTel quiz¶

This is a really nice (and short) OTel quiz by the good folks from OllyGarden. Thanks!

OTel SDK overhead¶

Coroot put together a report about the OpenTelemetry SDK overhead, worth checking out to learn more how instrumentation impacts CPU and memory usage.

Monitoring Kube jobs¶

Ivan Yurochko published Monitoring Short-Lived Kubernetes Jobs at Scale, providing hands-on guidance.

Playwright and OTel¶

Check out endformdev/playwright-opentelemetry which allows you to trace your Playwright tests across the entire stack.

CloudWatch launches Omni¶

Introducing Amazon CloudWatch Omni: Observability for the AI Era by Mukul Karnik is the launch blog post for Omni, the AWS AI-powered off-AWS Console observability experience built on open standards. Congrats on the launch!

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!