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How should Prometheus handle OpenTelemetry resource attributes?

Note: A version of this post originally appeared on the OpenTelemetry blog. Victoria Nduka is user experience designer and open source contributor making her way into the cloud native space. She writes about design, accessibility, and open source with the same curiosity she brings to her work. On May 29, I wrapped up my mentorship with Prometheus through the Linux Foundation mentorship program.

OpenTelemetry Deep Dive: Resilience & High Availability in the OTel Collector

Missed it live? Catch the full recording of OpenTelemetry Deep Dive: Resilience & High Availability in the OTel Collector — a 1-hour workshop on building telemetry pipelines that never drop a signal. We’ll show you why resilience matters, how to design high-availability architectures, and how to configure the OpenTelemetry Collector with retries, batching, and persistent queues. Plus, you’ll see live demos in both Docker and Kubernetes — including scaling Gateway collectors with an HPA — and how Bindplane makes large-scale management seamless.

Observability Without Limits - Uptrace Pricing Explained

Welcome to Uptrace, the modern observability platform. Our pricing is simple: pay only for the data you ingest. Unlimited users, services, and hosts Billed per uncompressed GB for spans & logs Billed by active timeseries for metrics Automatic volume discounts as your usage grows Free trial includes 1 TB of spans & logs and 100,000 timeseries — no credit card required.

OpenTelemetry API vs SDK: Understanding the Architecture

When you're instrumenting applications with OpenTelemetry, you'll encounter two core components: the API and the SDK. The API defines what telemetry data looks like and how it is created, while the SDK handles how that data is processed and exported. Understanding this split helps you build more maintainable observability and avoid tight coupling between your business logic and telemetry infrastructure.

Introducing the Coralogix Transactions processor

Coralogix Transactions are a trace segmentation strategy, unique to the Coralogix platform. They allow users to analyze the performance, over time, of a collection of related spans, across billions of traces. Coralogix has introduced a transactions processor into the OpenTelemetry contrib image, enabling users to activate this unique feature using nothing more than OpenTelemetry configuration.