Posts in 2022
Exposing a Collector for cross cluster communication
Thursday, September 08, 2022 in Blog
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 Blog
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 Blog
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 Blog
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 Blog
Apache 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 Apache Module to add observability to Apache. In this blog …
OpenTelemetry in Practice: Kubernetes & the Collector
Wednesday, August 17, 2022 in Blog
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 Blog
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 …
Introducing new resources for OpenTelemetry end users to connect and discover best practices
Thursday, June 30, 2022 in Blog
The content of this post has moved to End-user Resources, where it will be kept up-to-date as more end-user resources become available.
Improved troubleshooting using k8s metadata
Wednesday, June 29, 2022 in Blog
Attaching Kubernetes resource metadata to OpenTelemetry traces is useful to identify which resource (such as a pod) is failing or having performance problems. It is also useful for correlating across other signals, for example: you can correlated …
Announcing a Community Demo for OpenTelemetry
Monday, June 20, 2022 in Blog
TL;DR The OpenTelemetry community has taken a good pre-existing demo (thanks, Google!) and is in the process of making it even better. Every GA SDK (besides Swift) will be represented, demo support will be extended to Metrics and Logs, and canonical …