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Tail Sampling with OpenTelemetry: Why it’s useful, how to do it, and what to consider
Monday, September 26, 2022 in 2022
Tail sampling is useful for identifying issues in your distributed system while saving on observability costs. In this post, you’ll learn how to implement tail sampling using the OpenTelemetry Collector. I will also share some general and …
How we used OpenTelemetry to fix a bug in OpenTelemetry
Thursday, September 22, 2022 in 2022
OpenTelemetry is here to help us find the root cause of issues in our software quickly. We recently had an issue that we were able to fix by using one feature of OpenTelemetry to identify the root cause of bug in another feature. In this blog post, …
Announcing the 2022 OpenTelemetry Governance Committee Election
Thursday, September 15, 2022 in 2022
The OpenTelemetry project is excited to announce the 2022 OpenTelemetry Governance Committee (GC) election. Nominations are due by end-of-day on 7 October 2022, with the ratification happening by 8 October 2022 and a list of eligible candidates will …
Exposing a Collector for cross cluster communication
Thursday, September 08, 2022 in 2022
Exposing an OpenTelemetry Collector currently requires a number of configuration steps. The goal of this blog post is to demonstrate how to establish a secure communication between two collectors in different Kubernetes clusters. Details of CRDs and …
Instrumenting Apache Kafka clients with OpenTelemetry
Tuesday, September 06, 2022 in 2022
Nowadays, Apache Kafka is chosen as the nervous system in a distributed environment. Different services communicate with each other by using Apache Kafka as a messaging system but even more as en event or data streaming platform. Taking into account …
Exponential Histograms: Better Data, Zero Configuration
Wednesday, August 24, 2022 in 2022
Histograms are a powerful tool in the observability tool belt. OpenTelemetry supports histograms because of their ability to efficiently capture and transmit distributions of measurements, enabling statistical calculations like percentiles. In …
Go Web-app Instrumentation
Tuesday, August 23, 2022 in 2022
In this blog post, you will learn hands-on how to create and visualize traces with OpenTelemetry Go without prior knowledge. We will start with creating a simple to-do app that uses Mongo and the Gin framework. Then, we will send tracing data to …
Learn how to instrument NGINX with OpenTelemetry
Monday, August 22, 2022 in 2022
Apache HTTP Server and NGINX are the most popular web servers. It’s most likely that you are using one of them in your application. In a previous blog post, you learned how to use the OpenTelemetry Module for Apache HTTP Server to add …
OpenTelemetry in Practice: Kubernetes & the Collector
Wednesday, August 17, 2022 in 2022
About the Series Welcome to the OpenTelemetry in Practice series! This is a new experiment by some OpenTelemetry contributors in the End User Working Group. We’re aiming to: Address practical problems that commonly stop development teams from …
OpenTelemetry .NET Automatic Instrumentation metric signal support
Thursday, July 07, 2022 in 2022
We’re excited to announce the 0.2.0-beta.1 release of the OpenTelemetry .NET Automatic Instrumentation which adds metric signal support! Now you can easily export metrics from: .NET Runtime, ASP.NET Core, ASP.NET Framework, HTTP clients …