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coralogix

Managing OpenTelemetry at Scale: Why OTel Pipelines Need a Control Plane

May 10, 2026 By Jonny Steiner In Coralogix
OpenTelemetry made telemetry possible everywhere – turning observability pipelines into distributed production infrastructure. Distributed infrastructure requires a control plane for inventory, governance, and safe change. At 500 collectors across hybrid environments, operational overhead becomes a production risk. The moment telemetry pipelines become a distributed infrastructure, they inherit the operational problems of one.
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honeycomb

Span or Attribute in OpenTelemetry Custom Instrumentation

May 7, 2026 By Jessica Kerr (Jessitron) In Honeycomb
TL;DR: Attribute. More information on one event gives us more correlation power. It’s also cheaper. When you want to add some information to your tracing telemetry, you could emit a log, create a span, or add a piece of data to your current span. Adding a piece of data to your current span is the best! Usually.
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observiq

Faster OpenTelemetry Migrations from Splunk to SecOps with Bindplane

May 7, 2026 By Laura Luttmer In ObservIQ
Many security teams are looking to move off Splunk, whether to reduce licensing costs, consolidate their SIEM, or take advantage of Google SecOps' built-in threat intelligence and YARA-L detection capabilities. But migrations aren’t easy, and no one wants to run blind while they evaluate and move to a new platform. With OpenTelemetry and Bindplane, you can easily make the switch to SecOps without impacting your existing stack.
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honeycomb

Taming Log Noise With the OpenTelemetry Collector's Drain Processor

May 4, 2026 By Mike Goldsmith In Honeycomb
Do you receive 50 million log lines per day and struggle to see what actually matters? Health checks, heartbeat pings, connection pool messages—they all drown out the errors and anomalies you're trying to find. Most teams deal with this by writing filter rules to drop the noisy patterns. But those rules are manual, per-pattern, and brittle. A new deployment changes a log format and the filter misses it. A new service starts logging a chatty startup sequence nobody thought to exclude.
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OpenTelemetry VM Setup Guide: SigNoz Collection Agents Explained

May 4, 2026 By SigNoz - Open Source Observability Platform In SigNoz
About This Video: If you're working with OpenTelemetry, managing collector configurations across environments like VMs can quickly become difficult. In this video, we focus on VM-based setups and walk through how to configure SigNoz Collection Agents step by step. We start with an introduction to VM collection agents, then move into a practical project walkthrough using the OpenTelemetry demo. From there, we explore the documentation, set up configurations, run the collector, and finally validate everything inside SigNoz.
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last9

Stop ECS Containers From Collapsing Into One Service in OpenTelemetry

May 2, 2026 By Prathamesh Sonpatki In Last9
Why ECS containers collapse under service.name = aws_ecs and how to fix it for both EC2 launch type and Fargate, including the resource-vs-log-record pitfall that quietly breaks log filtering. Prathamesh works as an evangelist at Last9, runs SRE stories - where SRE and DevOps folks share their stories, and maintains o11y.wiki - a glossary of all terms related to observability.
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Telemetry Talks ep 4: Retroactive sampling and OpenTelemetry

May 1, 2026 By VictoriaMetrics In VictoriaMetrics
This episode of Telemetry Talks explores the evolution of an OTLP/gRPC tracing pipeline for VictoriaTraces within OpenTelemetry and VictoriaMetrics, including a shift from standard gRPC-Go to a simplified HTTP/2-based implementation to reduce complexity and improve flexibility. Together with the our guest, Jiekun, we revisited the VictoriaMetrics KubeCon talk ideas on tail-based and retroactive sampling — and their impact on the broader OpenTelemetry community.
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last9

How to Test SQS Workflows Locally with LocalStack and OpenTelemetry

Apr 30, 2026 By Prathamesh Sonpatki In Last9
LocalStack lets you run SQS, Lambda, and S3 locally in Docker — but there's a hidden trap: OpenTelemetry's default AWS propagator doesn't work with free LocalStack. Here's how to set up end-to-end local testing with working trace propagation. Prathamesh works as an evangelist at Last9, runs SRE stories - where SRE and DevOps folks share their stories, and maintains o11y.wiki - a glossary of all terms related to observability.
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last9

End-to-End Trace Propagation Across SQS and Lambda with OpenTelemetry

Apr 29, 2026 By Prathamesh Sonpatki In Last9
SQS doesn't propagate trace context automatically. You instrument both sides, deploy, and get two disconnected traces. This post shows how to wire them into one waterfall — and the ESM format gotcha that silently breaks it every time. Prathamesh works as an evangelist at Last9, runs SRE stories - where SRE and DevOps folks share their stories, and maintains o11y.wiki - a glossary of all terms related to observability.
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