6 verified briefings on Opentelemetry. Each story includes a plain-English summary, why it matters, and the concrete action engineering teams should take.
OpenTelemetry has officially graduated within the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, solidifying its role as the industry standard for observability. This helps companies avoid vendor lock-in and standardize how they monitor their software and infrastructure.
Using a service mesh with other observability tools can accidentally double-count your traffic metrics. A new guide from CNCF shows developers how to fix this common issue, ensuring accurate data for monitoring and incident response.
A developer treated an espresso machine like a distributed system, using OpenTelemetry and ClickHouse to analyze every shot. The project is a creative case study on applying observability principles to real-world, unconventional systems.
OpenTelemetry (OTel) offers a standard for telemetry data, promising vendor neutrality. However, a recent analysis highlights the complexities behind this promise. While OTel provides a common format, true neutrality is challenging as vendor-specific features can still lead to forms of lock-in.
JetBrains released Toolbox App 3.5, a significant update for developers. The new version introduces OpenTelemetry metrics for better monitoring of remote development connections, adds interface zooming for accessibility, and includes several reliability improvements to enhance the overall user experience.
ClickHouse has introduced ClickStack Cloud, a new serverless observability platform. It's a fully managed service built on the ClickHouse database, designed to handle logs, metrics, and traces. The platform uses a managed endpoint for OpenTelemetry data, allowing teams to analyze systems without managing infrastructure.