Join us for OpenTelemetry Talks and Activities at Kubecon NA 2022
Monday, October 10, 2022 in 2022
The OpenTelemetry project maintainers, and members of the governance committee and technical committee are excited to be at KubeCon NA in a few weeks! Join in to meet up in person or virtually for OpenTelemetry activities in Detroit from October 24 - …
OTel Unplugged at KubeCon NA 2022!
Friday, October 07, 2022 in 2022
Are you excited about KubeCon NA 2022 in Detroit later this month? Maybe you’re attending in-person or virtually, for the first time or the fifth – either way, the OpenTelemetry community is excited to present a hybrid event that will take …
Announcing the OpenTelemetry Community Manager
Thursday, October 06, 2022 in 2022
OpenTelemetry has demonstrated massive growth since its inception in 2019. What started as a handful of OpenTracing and OpenCensus maintainers and collaborators meeting at the Google campus and over Zoom, has now grown into the second-most popular …
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 …