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August 2022

How to monitor Couchbase with Google Cloud Ops

You can now easily monitor couchbase metrics and logs in Google Cloud. All of our logging and monitoring Google Cloud contributions are available through the Google Ops Agent GitHub repository. You can check it out here! The Google Ops Agent uses the built-in Prometheus exporter and receiver to monitor Couchbase sources running Couchbase 7.0. You can find documentation on the Prometheus exporter in the Couchbase documentation.

Creating Homebrew Formulas with GoReleaser

We chose to use GoReleaser with our distro of the OpenTelemetry Collector in order to simplify how we build and support many operating systems and architectures. It allows us to build targeting a matrix of GOOS and GOARCH targets as well as automate creating a wide range of deliverables. Ones we have utilized are building tarballs, nfpm packages, docker images, and Homebrew formula.

Configuring an OpenTelemetry Collector to connect to BindPlane OP

Bindplane OP is the first open source, vendor-agnostic, agent and pipeline management tool. It makes it easy to deploy, configure, and manage agents on thousands of sources, and ship metrics, logs, and traces to any destination. This blog shows you how to configure an existing OpenTelemetry Collector from any source to connect to Bindplane OP without needing to remove or reinstall the collector.

How to monitor Solr with OpenTelemetry

Monitoring Solr is very critical because it handles the search and analysis of data in your application. Similifying this monitoring is necessary to gain full visibility into Solr’s availability and ensure it is performing as expectedn. We’ll show you how to do this using the jmxreceiver for the OpenTelemetry collector. You can utilize this receiver in conjunction with any OTel collector: including the OpenTelemetry Collector and observIQ’s distribution of the collector.

How to Monitor SAP Hana with OpenTelemetry

SAP Hana monitoring support is now available in the open source OpenTelemetry collector. You can check out the OpenTelemetry repo here! You can utilize this receiver in conjunction with any OTel collector: including the OpenTelemetry Collector and observIQ’s distribution of the collector. Below are quick instructions for setting up observIQ’s OpenTelemetry distribution, and shipping SAP Hana telemetry to a popular backend: Google Cloud Ops.

BindPlane OP Reaches GA

Today we’re excited to announce BindPlane OP – the first observability pipeline built for OpenTelemetry – is out of beta and now generally available. You can download the latest version here. Two months ago we released BindPlane OP in beta, and while we were confident we had something special, the response surpassed all of our expectations.