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Ship AWS Cloudwatch Logs to Any Destination with OpenTelemetry

With observIQ’s latest contributions to OpenTelemetry, you can now use free open source tools to easily aggregate logs across your entire infrastructure to any or multiple analysis tools. The easiest way to use the latest OpenTelemetry tools is with observIQ’s distribution of the OpenTelemetry collector. You can find it here.

Iterating on an OpenTelemetry Collector Deployment in Kubernetes

When you want to direct your observability data in a uniform fashion, you want to run an OpenTelemetry collector. If you have a Kubernetes cluster handy, that’s a useful place to run it. Helm is a quick way to get it running in Kubernetes; it encapsulates all the YAML object definitions that you need. OpenTelemetry publishes a Helm chart for the collector. When you install the OpenTelemetry collector with Helm, you’ll give it some configuration.

Identify and redact sensitive data in APM, RUM, and Events stream with Sensitive Data Scanner

Customer-facing applications request and process many types of sensitive data, such as API keys, credit card numbers, and email addresses. As your application scales in size and complexity, it becomes harder to keep track of this sensitive data moving across more services, increasing the risk of data leaks.

Find and Fix Bottlenecks in Your Gradle Builds With OpenTelemetry and Honeycomb

Today, I’d like to share with you a new community-contributed integration that helps you optimize and debug your Gradle builds. This new Gradle plugin is available today, is free to use, and you can use it immediately with a free Honeycomb account.

0 to Observable: From Kubernetes Logs to Container Observability with Coralogix

In this video, we begin with a local Kubernetes cluster. From there, we will add a collector agent, the Open Telemetry Collector and configure it to push logs to Coralogix. However, we won't stop there. We'll then use the Logs2Metrics feature to transform those logs into some key container metrics, and visualise them using a DataMap. From 0 to observable in 15 minutes.

How to Enrich Logs and Metrics with OpenTelemetry Using BindPlane OP

Data enrichment is the process of adding additional context or attributes to telemetry data at the source that increases its value during analysis. OpenTelemetry, a collaborative open source telemetry project with the largest organizations in the observability space, can be configured to enrich logs and metrics from dozens of sources. This blog will show you the basics of how to use BindPlane OP to easily deploy and configure OpenTelemetry to enrich data from a source.

Send metrics and traces from OpenTelemetry Collector to Datadog via Datadog Exporter

OpenTelemetry is an open source, vendor-neutral observability framework that provides tools, APIs, and SDKs to collect and standardize telemetry data from cloud-native applications and services. One of OpenTelemetry’s key components is the OpenTelemetry Collector, which receives and processes data before using exporters to route it to the destinations of your choice.

Forward logs from the OpenTelemetry Collector with the Datadog Exporter

OpenTelemetry is an open source set of tools and standards that provide visibility into cloud-native applications. OpenTelemetry allows you to collect metrics, traces, and logs from applications written in many languages and export them to a backend of your choice.

Microservices or a monolith - which one are you?

One analogy of a microservice architecture that I personally like is the idea of a large office setting with disparate departments communicating through an internal mail system. I imagine manilla envelopes being passed around, carried on carts through hallways, up elevators—passing the information one department needs to the next department.