OpenTelemetry Metrics Explained: A Guide for Engineers
OpenTelemetry (often abbreviated as OTel) is the golden standard observability framework, allowing users to collect, process, and export telemetry data from their systems. OpenTelemetry’s framework...
OpenTelemetry Is Not “Three Pillars”
OpenTelemetry is a big, big project. It’s so big, in fact, that it can be hard to know what part you’re talking about when you’re...
What’s That Collector Doing?
The Collector is one of many tools that the OpenTelemetry project provides end users to use in their observability journey. It is a powerful mechanism...
Monitoring Windows Servers With the OpenTelemetry Collector
The OpenTelemetry Collector is an exceptional solution for proxying and enhancing telemetry, but it’s also great for generating telemetry from machines too. In this post,...
Fewer Logs, More Value
We’re always interested in improving the signal-to-noise ratio of our internal telemetry at Honeycomb. In an effort to reduce the amount of noise in our...
Ingesting JSON Logs From Containers With the OpenTelemetry Collector
So, how do we get JSON logs into a backend analysis system like Honeycomb that primarily accepts OTLP data? In this post, we’ll cover how...
Beyond Monitoring: A Guide to Cloud Observability
With more and often smaller processes, cloud-native architectures have driven the need for better insights into our software—a way to look into how these processes...
Driving Multi-Region Observability Excellence at Lansweeper
Since its inception in 2004, Lansweeper has been at the forefront of helping businesses understand, manage, and protect their IT devices and networks through a...
The OTTL Cookbook: Common Solutions to Data Transformation Problems
As our software complexity increases, so does our telemetry—and as our telemetry increases, it needs more and more tweaking en route to its final destination....
Is OpenTelemetry Open for Business? September 2024 Update
One of the things about OpenTelemetry that’s easy to miss if you’re not spending the whole day in the ins and outs of the project...
Deploying the OpenTelemetry Collector to AKS
The Collector is the focal point for telemetry inside your cluster. Instead of your containerized applications sending directly to your OpenTelemetry-capable backend (the place that...
Modern Observability in Action at the University of Oxford
The Bennett Institute for Applied Data Science at the University of Oxford is pioneering the better use of data, evidence, and digital tools in healthcare,...
OpenTelemetry Best Practices #3: Data Prep and Cleansing
Having telemetry is all well and good—amazing, in fact. It’s easy to do: add some OpenTelemetry auto-instrumentation libraries to your stack and they’ll fill your...
Observability, Telemetry, and Monitoring: Learn About the Differences
Over the past five years, software and systems have become increasingly complex and challenging for teams to understand. A challenging macroeconomic environment, the rise of...
Understanding OpenTelemetry’s Browser Instrumentation
Recently, Honeycomb released a Web Instrumentation package built around the OpenTelemetry browser JS packages. In this post, I’ll go over what the OpenTelemetry auto-instrumentation package...