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mezmo

Telemetry Data Compliance Module

May 30, 2024 By Mezmo In Mezmo
Telemetry data sent from applications often contains Personally Identifying Information (PII) like names, user IDs, phone numbers, and other information that must be obfuscated before the data is sent to storage or observability tools, in order to be in compliance with corporate or government policies such as HIPAA in the US or the GDPR in the EU.
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Cribl

My 3 Lessons About OpenTelemetry for Observability

May 29, 2024 By Josh Biggley In Cribl
As a fan of OpenTelemetry, I love to see Cribl meeting customers where they are and helping them get to where they want to be with a vendor-agnostic approach. Where it is not possible or practical to re-instrument a telemetry source, whether an application or infrastructure, the barrier to adopting OpenTelemetry Signals can be daunting.
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Instrumenting your Codebase with OpenTelemetry

May 24, 2024 By ObservIQ In ObservIQ
Ready to unlock the full potential of your applications through comprehensive instrumentation? Join us for a webinar focused on the essentials of instrumenting your codebase with OpenTelemetry. From tracing requests to capturing metrics and logs, we'll guide you through the process of integrating OpenTelemetry seamlessly into your development workflow. Gain the visibility you need to optimize performance, troubleshoot issues, and deliver exceptional user experiences.
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observiq

How to Monitor Host Metrics with OpenTelemetry

May 23, 2024 By Austin Senkowski In ObservIQ
Today's environments often present the challenge of collecting data from various sources, such as multi-cloud, hybrid on-premises/cloud, or both. Each cloud provider has its own tools that send data to their respective telemetry platforms. OpenTelemetry can monitor cloud VMs, on-premises VMs, and bare metal systems and send all data to a unified monitoring platform. This applies across multiple operating systems and vendors.
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grafana

Serverless observability: How to monitor Google Cloud Run with OpenTelemetry and Grafana Cloud

May 23, 2024 By Kamel Djoudi In Grafana
OpenTelemetry has emerged as the go-to open source solution for collecting telemetry data, including traces, metrics, and logs. What’s especially unique about the project is its focus on breaking free from the reliance on proprietary code to offer users greater control and flexibility. As a senior solutions engineer here at Grafana Labs, I’ve spent a lot of time exploring OpenTelemetry, including in my spare time.
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signoz

Spans - a key concept of distributed tracing

May 21, 2024 By Ankit Anand In SigNoz
Spans are fundamental building blocks of distributed tracing. A single trace in distributed tracing consists of a series of tagged time intervals known as spans. Spans represent a logical unit of work in completing a user request or transaction. Distributed tracing is critical to application performance monitoring in microservice-based architecture. Before we deep dive into spans, let's have a brief overview of distributed tracing.
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Apica

What is Fleet Management in OpenTelemetry

May 20, 2024 By Zaigam In Apica
Fleet management in the broader sense is about managing, organizing, and coordinating assets within an organization to ensure efficiency, reduce costs, and maintain compliance. The term originates from the automotive industry. According to Forbes, Fleet management involves a slew of strategies and procedures required to operate a fleet of 5 or more vehicles punctually, cost-effectively, and at optimal efficiency.
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Complete Handbook of OpenTelemetry Metrics

May 17, 2024 By Last9 In Last9
You have probably heard of OpenTelemetry in the context of traces. But did you know OpenTelemetry also supports metrics with a comprehensive, forward-looking data model and SDKs? When it comes to metrics, one thinks of Prometheus, but Otel metrics provide exciting ideas such as cumulative deltas, exponential histograms, and more! This talk will demystify everything about Otel Metrics, from the data model to APIs to how to get started. We will cover the differences between Otel Metrics and Prometheus and explain the reasons why people get excited about using Otel Metrics.
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signoz

Choosing an OpenTelemetry backend - Things To Keep In Mind

May 16, 2024 By Ankit Anand In SigNoz
OpenTelemetry is a Cloud Native Computing Foundation(CNCF) incubating project aimed at standardizing the way we instrument applications for generating telemetry data(logs, metrics, and traces). However, OpenTelemetry does not provide storage and visualization for the collected telemetry data. And that’s where an OpenTelemetry backend is needed. Cloud computing and containerization made deploying and scaling applications easier.
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catchpoint

Catchpoint Tracing Offers Deep Visibility for Critical Cloud-Centric Applications from the User Experience Across the Internet to the Code

May 14, 2024 By Catchpoint In Catchpoint
New capability provides DevOps and IT Operations teams the unique ability to see code tracing data in context of anything in the Internet Stack that may impact the user experience journey.
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