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The point of OpenTelemetry has been to give you a choice. Yet, most observability vendors still insist you run their collector. We’re removing that last point of friction.

The point of OpenTelemetry has been to give you a choice. Yet, most observability vendors still insist you run their collector. We’re removing that last point of friction. With Bring Your Own Collector (BYOC), Bindplane now accepts any upstream-compatible build, recognizes exactly which receivers, processors, and exporters it contains, and adapts the UI and configuration workflow on the fly. No forks, no vendor stamp—just the collector you already trust, fully managed by Bindplane.

This video features a joint session hosted by the Checkly team in collaboration with Mezmo. We discuss current practices and challenges in web application monitoring. The session explores practical strategies, shared experiences from both teams, and insights into how modern engineering teams are approaching observability and reliability at scale.

Learn how to send alerts from Grafana OSS or Grafana Enterprise to Grafana Cloud IRM. In this quick demo, we'll show you how to set up the integration between your self-hosted instance and our managed solution for consolidating, customizing, and automating incident response and management. Grafana Cloud is the easiest way to get started with Grafana dashboards, metrics, logs, and traces. Our forever-free tier includes access to 10k metrics, 50GB logs, 50GB traces and more.

In the May edition of the Kubernetes Monitoring Helm chart office hours, we discuss the recent version 2.1 release as well as changes to how the pod label is handled. We also discuss some exciting upcoming features. Finally, we end with a very short Q&A. Chapters.