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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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What Can OpenTelemetry Distributed Tracing Architecture Do for Frontend Developers?

Nov 7, 2022 By Aviv Kerbel In Helios

When developers talk about the options OpenTelemetry opens up to them, one of the most powerful use cases is troubleshooting distributed architectures. With OTel data and insights, developers can identify bugs and solve a wide range of issues across various types of architecture and flows. These include asynchronous flows, flows with Lambda functions, and many more.

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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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Better alignment with OpenTelemetry by focusing on OTLP

Nov 3, 2022 By Yuri Shkuro In JaegerTracing

TL;DR: proposal (and a survey) to deprecate native Jaeger exporters in OpenTelemetry SDKs in favor of OTLP exporters.

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How to correlate performance testing and distributed tracing to proactively improve reliability

Nov 3, 2022 By Daniel González Lopes, Wei Li In Grafana

At ObservabilityCON, we announced our first step towards launching a native integration between Grafana k6 load testing and Grafana Tempo tracing (k6 x Tempo) in Grafana Cloud. We created k6 x Tempo to help dev, testing, and operation teams analyze their performance test results more effectively and proactively improve the reliability of their business-critical applications.

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OpenTelemetry, Auto-Instrumentation and Splunk Observability Cloud: A Jump Start

Nov 3, 2022 By Adam Schalock In Splunk

Have you been meaning to learn about OpenTelemetry and the integration of all available application and service telemetry? If you like to learn things by doing; get ready to dive in and have some fun with OpenTelemetry and Splunk Observability Cloud. Quickly learn more about OpenTelemetry auto-instrumentation and collectors at your own pace with these walkthroughs and guides.

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