The latest News and Information on Distributed Tracing and related technologies.
When troubleshooting distributed applications, you can use Cloud Trace and Cloud Logging together to perform root cause analysis.
OpenTelemetry vs Prometheus is a commonly searched and debated topic in the Observability and monitoring space. While both platforms are widely used in software and infrastructure management today, most people don’t understand the difference between the two. Both platforms stand as robust tools in the realm of observability, each offering unique capabilities. OpenTelemetry offers a uniform approach for gathering, instrumenting, and exporting telemetry data.
The OpenTelemetry Collector is a core part of telemetry pipelines, which makes it one of the parts of your infrastructure that must be as secure as possible. The general advice from the OpenTelemetry teams is to build a custom Collector executable instead of using the supplied ones when you’re using it in a production scenario. However, that isn’t an easy task, and that prompted me to build something.