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Reduce Data Costs: Log Sampling with OpenTelemetry and BindPlane OP

Nov 15, 2022 By Joe Howell In ObservIQ

Redundant logs are a common nuisance in observability pipelines of all kinds. In large environments, excess logs can multiply data costs to unsustainable amounts. Log sampling is the process of randomly sampling logs to produce the same valuable insight with dramatically reduced data flow. Configuring agents in a pipeline to appropriately sample logs can be a pain. Pipeline managers, like BindPlane OP, make that process simple and scalable.

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5 Reasons Why OpenTelemetry is the Future of Observability

Nov 15, 2022 By Splunk In Splunk

It has been said that open source is eating the world and in the observability space, the project behind this movement is OpenTelemetry. The project is quickly becoming the standard for instrumentation and collection of observability data. Why is an open standard and open-source approach to instrumentation and data collection so compelling? This talk will provide five reasons why OpenTelemetry is disrupting the observability market.

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RedHat OpenShift monitoring with Splunk's OpenTelemetry Operator

Nov 11, 2022 By Splunk In Splunk

Do you have an instant view of all the full-stack automated operations in your OpenShift environment. Would you like to monitor your self-service provisioning as code, to better understand health and performance? Have you been struggling to resolve service issues and reduce the time taken for troubleshooting across all your Kubernetes deployment? We’ve got you covered!

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Auto Instrumentation via the OpenTelemetry Collector

Nov 11, 2022 By Splunk In Splunk

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Grafana Agent 0.29.0 release: New OpenTelemetry components

Nov 9, 2022 By Matt Durham In Grafana

Today the Grafana Agent team is excited to announce the release of Grafana Agent v0.29.0. This September, we introduced a new way to easily run and configure Grafana Agent called Grafana Agent Flow, our new dynamic configuration runtime built on components. Within Flow, we are also embracing Grafana Labs’ big tent philosophy by introducing OpenTelemetry (OTel) Collector components and converters for traces, metrics, and logs in Agent v0.29.0.

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"Managing OpenTelemetry Through the OpAMP Protocol" by Mike Kelly, observIQ

Nov 9, 2022 By ObservIQ In ObservIQ

Managing thousands of data collection Agents across just as many servers can overwhelm DevOps teams. Open Agent Management Protocol (OpAMP) is a new network protocol from the OpenTelemetry Project that enables remote management of OpenTelemetry collectors, allowing them to report their status to and receive configuration from a Server and to receive agent package updates from the server. This eliminates the need to create new custom distributions and redeploy, drastically simplifying Agent management.

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Sumo Logic's investment in OTel

Nov 9, 2022 By Melissa Sussmann In Sumo Logic

When teams collect data without full observability of what others on the team can see, it becomes clear that no one’s picture is truly accurate. In this picture, all of the people are wearing blindfolds and feeling around to see what is in front of them. One thinks this creature is a spear, another thinks it is a tree trunk, and another a rope. As long as they cannot observe what the others can, there is poor data fidelity.

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Deploying OpenTelemetry Organizationally: From Proof of Concept to In-Production at Scale

Nov 8, 2022 By Datadog In Datadog

Observability involves telling a coherent story about an entire system. Over the years, video streaming service Pluto TV has had to navigate many storytellers in terms of observability vendors, tools, and formats before settling on OpenTelemetry to analyze and compare features across its many destination platforms. During this presentation, you'll see how Bharathi Ramachandran—Engineering Manager at Pluto TV—used OpenTelemetry to implement his initial proof of concept and get his entire organization shipping observability data at scale.

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Monitoring Cloud Database Costs with OpenTelemetry and Honeycomb

Nov 3, 2022 By Martin Thwaites In Honeycomb

In the last few years, the usage of databases that charge by request, query, or insert—rather than by provisioned compute infrastructure (e.g., CPU, RAM, etc.)—has grown significantly. They’re popular for a lot of the same reasons that serverless compute functions are, as the cost will scale with your usage. No one is using your site? No problem: you’re not charged.

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Opentelemetry vs. Prometheus

Nov 3, 2022 By LogicMonitor In LogicMonitor

OpenTelemetry and Prometheus are classified as monitoring tools, but they also have significant differences that your company should know about. For cloud-native applications, OpenTelemetry is the future of instrumentation. It’s the first critical step that allows companies to monitor and improve application performance. OpenTelemetry also supports multiple programming languages and technologies.

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