The latest News and Information on Distributed Tracing and related technologies.
In a previous blog post, "Monitoring Kafka Performance with Splunk," we discussed key performance metrics to monitor different components in Kafka. This blog is focused on how to collect and monitor Kafka performance metrics with Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring using OpenTelemetry, a vendor-neutral and open framework to export telemetry data. In this step-by-step getting-started blog, we will.
If you already had some experience with Kamon, you probably saw Kamon create Spans automatically for a lot of stuff, including HTTP server requests, database calls, actor messages, and more. But what happens when you want to create Spans for methods or code blocks that Kamon doesn’t instrument automatically? Let’s look at the two simplest ways to create Spans programmatically with Kamon.
Logz.io is always looking to improve the user experience when it comes to Kubernetes and monitoring your K8s architecture. We’ve taken another step with that, adding OpenTelemetry instrumentation with Helm charts. We have made Helm charts available before, previously with editions suitable for Metricbeat and for Prometheus operators.
The OpenTelemetry project is an ambitious endeavor with of goal of bringing together various technologies to form a vendor neutral observability platform. Within the past year, many of the biggest names in tech provide native support within their commercial projects.
In this article we discuss the origin story of Kamon’s Range Samplers: what they are, how they work, and how we use them to monitor queues, connection pools and more.