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OpenTelemetry: Why community and conversation are foundational to this open standard

While many of the popular tools for observability in software are open source, one thing they lack is open design. Most of these solutions, from Nagios to Prometheus, started as a product with an opinionated design, which happened to work well for many people. These became the de facto standards. That position of de facto standard is what every open-source project and every commercial product tries to be.

How to Monitor Cloudflare with OpenTelemetry

With observIQ’s latest contributions to OpenTelemetry, you can now use free open source tools to easily monitor Cloudflare. The easiest way to use the latest OpenTelemetry tools is with observIQ’s distribution of the OpenTelemetry collector. You can find it here. In this blog, the Cloudflare receiver is configured to monitor logs locally with OTLP– you can use the receiver to ship logs to many popular analysis tools, including Google Cloud, New Relic, OTLP, Grafana, and more.

Top Distributed Tracing Tools - Every Developer Should Know

Web applications have expanded over the past ten years to support millions of users and generate terabytes of data. Customers of these programmes anticipate quick responses and round-the-clock accessibility. When businesses adopt service-oriented architectures and give up monolithic workloads, they are stepping into the uncharted ground.

Ship OpenTelemetry Data to Coralogix via Reverse Proxy (Caddy 2)

It is commonplace for organizations to restrict their IT systems from having direct or unsolicited access to external networks or the Internet, with network proxies serving as gatekeepers between an organization’s internal infrastructure and any external network. Network proxies can provide security and infrastructure admins the ability to specify specific points of data egress from their internal networks, often referred to as an egress controller.

What is Context Propagation in Distributed Tracing?

In modern microservices-based applications, it is difficult to get an overview of how requests are performing across multiple services, infrastructure, and protocols. As companies began moving to distributed systems, they realized they needed a way to track requests in their entirety for debugging applications. Distributed tracing is a technology that was born out of this need.

Python OpenTelemetry - Walkthrough and monitoring Examples

Microservices architecture has become the new norm for modern applications due to its numerous advantages compared to traditional monolithic architecture. However, microservices also come with several challenges. Especially when it comes to observability, traditional monitoring tools and techniques can no longer handle microservices’ distributed and dynamic nature.

Implementing OpenTelemetry in React applications

OpenTelemetry can be used to trace React applications for performance issues and bugs. You can trace user requests from your frontend web application to your downstream services. OpenTelemetry is an open-source project under the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) that aims to standardize the generation and collection of telemetry data. React (also known as React.js or ReactJS) is a free and open-source frontend JavaScript library for building user interfaces based on UI components.

Integrating OpenTelemetry into a Fluentbit environment using BindPlane OP

Fluentbit is a popular logs and metrics collector used for monitoring anything from virtual machines to containerized applications. With the rise of BindPlane OP and OpenTelemetry, it is not uncommon for organizations to begin replacing Fluentbit, or integrating OpenTelemetry with Fluentbit. An organization may have hundreds or thousands of Fluentbit agents deployed to their endpoints but they want to manage the pipeline using BindPlane OP.