The OpenTelemetry Collector receives traces, metrics, and logs, processes the telemetry, and exports it to a wide variety of observability backends using its components. For a conceptual overview of the Collector, see Collector. You are going to learn to do the following in less than five minutes: Set up and run the OpenTelemetry Collector. Send telemetry and see it processed by the Collector. Prerequisites Make sure that your developer environment has the following. This page assumes that yo...| OpenTelemetry
With contributions from Rynn Mancuso (Honeycomb) and Reese Lee (New Relic). On Thursday, May 25th, 2023, the OpenTelemetry (OTel) End User Working Group hosted its third End User Q&A session of 2023. We had a bit of a gap due to KubeCon Europe, but now we’re back! This series is a monthly casual discussion with a team using OpenTelemetry in production. The goal is to learn more about their environment, their successes, and the challenges that they face, and to share it with the community, s...| OpenTelemetry
Welcome back to OpenTelemetry in Focus for May, 2023! The sun is shining, the sky is blue, and it’s time to run down the latest updates from the OpenTelemetry project! Are you a maintainer with something you’d like featured here? Get in touch with me via email, or on the CNCF Slack #otel-comms channel. Releases and Updates Here are the latest updates from some of our core repositories. Specification Version 1.21 has been released with a variety of important changes, including:| OpenTelemetry
An overview of the key components that make up a Kubernetes cluster.| Kubernetes
Operators are software extensions to Kubernetes that make use of custom resources to manage applications and their components. Operators follow Kubernetes principles, notably the control loop. Motivation The operator pattern aims to capture the key aim of a human operator who is managing a service or set of services. Human operators who look after specific applications and services have deep knowledge of how the system ought to behave, how to deploy it, and how to react if there are problems.| Kubernetes