Topic: opentelemetry
Telemetry pipelines: The critical missing link in modern application monitoring and performance management
When it comes to telemetry data – meaning the logs, metrics, traces and other information engineers use to monitor applications, manage performance and troubleshoot outages– more is usually better. But there’s a big caveat: If you fail to manage telemetry data effectively, the data can quickly create more problems than it solves, leading to problems … continue reading
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2024: Istio 1.22, profiling support in OpenTelemetry, wasmCloud 1.0, and more
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2024 is taking place from today until Friday in Paris, France. The event is an annual gathering of Kubernetes operators that is put on by the CNCF and Linux Foundation. The CNCF has announced updates to some of its projects, and a number of vendors also released new things at the … continue reading
ObservIQ releases open-source observability pipeline, BindPlane OP
Telemetry company observIQ has announced the general availability of its observability pipeline BindPlane OP. It is an open-source offering and was built specifically for use with OpenTelemetry. Enterprises can use BindPlane OP to control their observability costs, simplify telemetry agent management, and avoid vendor lock-in. According to observIQ, the solution was built to address the … continue reading
Why OpenTelemetry is here to stay
It is no longer possible to instrument the world. Over the past 20 years, there has been an explosion of software development. With that growing interest has come an ever-diversifying, fractal landscape of widely shared software libraries. Applying these shared libraries makes up most of modern programming. This has been a wonderful experience, but there’s … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: New Relic
This week’s featured open-source project is based on New Relic’s observability platform. In an effort to help software engineers instrument everything and better understand their digital systems, the company is making its agents, integrations and SDKs available under an open-source license. “New Relic is committed to open standards, open source instrumentation, and the open communities … continue reading
Dynatrace partners with Google and Microsoft on the OpenTelemetry project
Dynatrace has announced that it is partnering with Google and Microsoft on the OpenTelemetry project. “Our goal is to ensure the ‘run the business’ software underpinning digital enterprises works perfectly, so we feel it’s important to contribute our expertise to this open source project to improve and advance observability in a broader manner,” said Alois … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: OpenTelemetry
The OpenTracing and OpenCensus projects are merging to form a new project called OpenTelemetry. OpenTracing provides APIs and instrumentation for distributed tracing, and OpenCensus allows for the collection of telemetry data. OpenTelemetry will allow telemetry to become a built-in feature in services. RELATED CONTENT: KubeCon EU: CircleCI’s new partnerships, DigitalOcean Kubernetes, and Gravity 6.0 According … continue reading
