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OpenTelemetry announces support for profiling
Tuesday, March 19, 2024 in 2024
In 2023, OpenTelemetry announced that it achieved stability for logs, metrics, and traces. While this was our initial goal at the formation of the project, fulfilling our vision of enabling built-in observability for cloud native applications …
Getting started with otelsql, the OpenTelemetry instrumentation for Go SQL
Monday, March 04, 2024 in 2024
otelsql is an instrumentation library for the database/sql library of the Go programming language. It generates traces and metrics from the application when interacting with databases. By doing that, the library allows you to identify errors or …
OpenTelemetry Collector Antipatterns
Friday, March 01, 2024 in 2024
The OpenTelemetry Collector is one of my favorite OpenTelemetry (OTel) components. It’s a flexible and powerful data pipeline which allows you to ingest OTel data from one or more sources, transform it (including batching, filtering, and masking), …
Join us for OpenTelemetry Talks and Activities at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2024
Wednesday, February 28, 2024 in 2024
The OpenTelemetry project maintainers, members of the governance committee, and technical committee are thrilled to be at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe and at the co-located Observability Day in Paris from March 19 - 22, 2024. Read on to learn …
Making observability fun: How we increased engineers' confidence in incident management using a game
Monday, February 26, 2024 in 2024
At Skyscanner, as in many organizations, teams tend to follow specific runbooks for individual failure modes. With modern and complex distributed systems, this has the downside of most of the errors being unknowns, which makes runbooks only partially …
Outreachy - How, When & Why?
Wednesday, January 17, 2024 in 2024
The OpenTelemetry maintainers are excited to have Sakshi Patle join our project as an intern via the Outreachy program. In this blog post, you can learn why Sakshi chose to apply for the Outreachy program and to contribute towards OpenTelemetry. If …
The Humans of OpenTelemetry
Friday, December 22, 2023 in 2023
What a year it has been for OpenTelemetry! The OTel Demo turned 1, the OpenTelemetry project announced general availability of the OpenTelemetry specification, Trace-Based Testing was added to the OTel Demo, we saw some exciting OTel integrations, …
Observe your Spring Native Image application with OpenTelemetry
Friday, December 08, 2023 in 2023
The OpenTelemetry Java agent is a convenient and well-established way to instrument Java applications. However, as of today it is not possible to use it with GraalVM Native Images. To provide you with an easy and seamless way for Spring Boot Native …
OpenTelemetry in Focus: Wrapping Up a Successful 2023
Wednesday, December 06, 2023 in 2023
As we approach the end of an eventful year, we’re announcing that “OpenTelemetry in Focus”, our platform for sharing updates about the OpenTelemetry project, is taking an end-of-year break after ten successful editions in 2023. Over …
Receive any custom metric with the OpenTelemetry Collector
Thursday, November 30, 2023 in 2023
While OpenTelemetry (OTel) is here to help you with troubleshooting and handling the “unknown unknowns”, it is also instrumental for managing route tasks like monitoring system metrics, like disk usage, server availability or SSL …