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What are Connectors in OpenTelemetry?

The OpenTelemetry Collector plays many different roles in the observability ecosystem. One of its most important roles is that of a telemetry processor. Recent upgrades to the Collector have enhanced its ability to condense, derive, replicate, and reason about telemetry streams. This is achieved with a new class of pipeline components called Connectors.

Short Descriptions in BindPlane OP

An easy way to write a short description to distinguish between different file types, fields, etc. About ObservIQ: observIQ is developing the unified telemetry platform: a fast, powerful and intuitive next-generation platform built for the modern observability team. Rooted in OpenTelemetry, our platform is designed to help teams reduce, simplify, and standardize their observability data.

Serverless observability, monitoring, and debugging - Overview and best practices

Serverless, as you may already know, is a cloud computing model where the cloud provider dynamically manages and allocates resources to execute code without the need for server provisioning or infrastructure management on the developer. This article overviews serverless observability, monitoring, and debugging, based on distributed tracing and OpenTelemetry (OTel).

Collecting Kubernetes Data Using OpenTelemetry

Running a Kubernetes cluster isn’t easy. With all the benefits come complexities and unknowns. In order to truly understand your Kubernetes cluster and all the resources running inside, you need access to the treasure trove of telemetry that Kubernetes provides. With the right tools, you can get access to all the events, logs, and metrics of all the nodes, pods, containers, etc. running in your cluster. So which tool should you choose?