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How OpenTelemetry Is Redefining Application Performance Monitoring

Nov 6, 2025 By Peter Di Stefano In SolarWinds
The data is there, but it’s scattered across domains, formats, and vendors. Teams are often left piecing together an incomplete story of what went wrong, long after the damage has been done. Now, a new open standard is changing that. OpenTelemetry (OTel) is fast becoming the connective tissue of modern observability—an open-source framework designed to make telemetry data (metrics, logs, and traces) universally accessible.
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OTel Updates: Declarative Config - A Steadier Way to Configure OpenTelemetry SDKs

Nov 3, 2025 By Anjali Udasi In Last9
Application configs change over time, often in small ways that are easy to miss. They may start simple — a few environment variables, one exporter, nothing unexpected. As your instrumentation grows, you add rules for filtering health check spans, adjust sampling based on attributes, or introduce environment-specific resource settings. Each change makes sense on its own. But months later, the picture can look different across dev, staging, and production.
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4 Common OpenTelemetry Challenges and How Site24x7 Helps Overcome Them

Oct 31, 2025 By Kirubanandan RA In Site24x7
OpenTelemetry (OTel) is transforming observability by standardizing and unifying how telemetry data such as metrics, logs, and traces are collected from distributed systems. However, while it unlocks new opportunities for monitoring and troubleshooting, adopting and operating OpenTelemetry comes with real-world challenges. Here’s what you need to know about these limitations, and how Site24x7 provides a holistic, simplified observability solution for your organization.
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Sidecar or Agent for OpenTelemetry: How to Decide

Oct 29, 2025 By Anjali Udasi In Last9
Getting telemetry out of a distributed system isn’t the hard part. Getting it out cleanly, without noise, drop-offs, or odd performance side-effects — that’s where things get interesting. Before you worry about processors or storage costs, you need a clear plan for where the OTel Collector should run. Most teams narrow this down to two options: a sidecar that sits next to each service, or a node-level agent that handles data for everything running on the node. Both patterns are solid.
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OTel Updates: Consistent Probability Sampling Fixes Fragmented Traces

Oct 28, 2025 By Anjali Udasi In Last9
You're sampling 1% of traces in production. A payment request fails at 3 AM. Logs show an error in order-service, but the full picture isn't there because different services made different sampling decisions. order-service kept the trace; payment-service didn't. So you end up checking logs and timestamps across a few services to piece things together. This happens because the usual probability sampling approach makes a separate choice at each service boundary.
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OpenTelemetry Spans Explained: Deconstructing Distributed Tracing

Oct 24, 2025 By Anjali Udasi In Last9
In a microservices architecture, a single user request can pass through multiple services before completing. When performance drops or an error occurs, tracing that journey is the only way to locate the source. Distributed tracing provides that visibility. At its core are OpenTelemetry Spans — units of work that capture what each service does during a request.
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How Atlassian built a smarter observability system with Grafana and OpenTelemetry

Oct 23, 2025 By Grafana In Grafana
Discover how Atlassian built OpsDeck, an observability platform powered by Grafana, to automate incident detection, improve response time, and reduce troubleshooting from one hour to under a minute. Hear how the Observability Insights team scaled OpenTelemetry, broke silos, and built smarter workflows for both engineers and support.
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Declarative Configuration in OTel (Grafana OpenTelemetry Community Call #1)

Oct 23, 2025 By Grafana In Grafana
We’re kicking off a brand-new Grafana OpenTelemetry Community Call! Join us as we dive into getting observability into your apps and infrastructure with Grafana, powered by OpenTelemetry. In this session, we’ll dive into Declarative Config — the new way to make OpenTelemetry onboarding simple and powerful. Instead of juggling environment variables or boilerplate in your startup code, declarative config gives you a clean, language-agnostic approach that works across SDKs and unlocks future possibilities like remote configuration. Join us with Marylia Gutierrez (OTel JavaScript approver & core contributor) to explore.
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What is Open Telemetry? The Future Is Here

Oct 21, 2025 By solarwindsinc In SolarWinds
Watch SolarWinds tech evangelist, Sascha Giese, dive into OpenTelemetry (OTel) and explain why a vendor-agnostic standard is the future of observability and application performance monitoring (APM). If you’ve ever wondered, what is OpenTelemetry? Sascha’s presentation is a great start or restart to diving back into the topic.
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