Posts in 2022
Supporting Jaeger with native OTLP
Thursday, November 03, 2022 in Blog
Back in May of 2022, the Jaeger project announced native support for the OpenTelemetry Protocol (OTLP). This followed a generous deprecation cycle for the Jaeger client libraries across many languages. With these changes, OpenTelemetry users are now …
Using OpenTelemetry OpAMP to modify service telemetry on the go
Wednesday, October 19, 2022 in Blog
How verbose should your service telemetry be? Should a service output all traces, metrics, and logs 100% of the time? How much of the service traffic should be sampled? I would like to suggest the answer of “it depends”. Desired telemetry data …
Using the Collector Builder with Sample Configs on GCP
Monday, October 17, 2022 in Blog
The OpenTelemetry Collector is a versatile tool for processing and exporting telemetry data. It supports ingestion from many different sources and routing to just as many observability backends thanks to its modular design. This design, based on …
Final list of candidates for the 2022 OpenTelemetry Governance Committee
Thursday, October 13, 2022 in Blog
The OpenTelemetry election committee is pleased to announce the final list of candidates running for one of the four available seats. We encourage all voters to take a moment and review all candidates, picking the one that best represents your …
Join us for OpenTelemetry Talks and Activities at Kubecon NA 2022
Monday, October 10, 2022 in Blog
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 Blog
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 Blog
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 Blog
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 Blog
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 Blog
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 …