The second post in our “thank you” series. FluxCD is what takes “the desired state in git” and makes it true in our clusters, repeatedly. It’s the heartbeat behind our weekly releases. Read the full article on Causely Blog
Every on-call engineer knows the hunt: a late-night incident where you chase down a mysterious failure, clue by clue, until you finally pin down the culprit. There’s real craft in that work: staying calm, forming hypotheses, ruling things out, communicating clearly, and bringing customers back to safety. When it’s over, the afterglow is real: a mix of pride, relief, and the feeling of being useful when it mattered. And yet, the same incident that becomes a great story is rarely a great night. It costs sleep, weekends, and family plans. Most people don’t love the disruption. They love the moment when a hard problem finally makes sense. The trap is subtle: because the story is vivid and the relief is rewarding, the reactive hunt can end up feeling more visible than the quieter work that would have prevented the incident in the first place. ...
With community-standard instrumentation and the OTel Collector, your metrics, logs, and traces are no longer trapped in a walled garden. Originally posted to the ClickHouse blog. Read the full article on ClickHouse Blog
Kubernetes has become the default backbone of cloud native architecture. But does it actually help you ship services more reliably, or is it just more moving parts?
By open-sourcing eBPF-based auto-instrumentation and then donating it as an OpenTelemetry BPF Instrumentation (OBI) project, Grafana didn’t just release code, they lowered the onramp for observability. Read the full article on Causely Blog
Whether we call it APM or observability is bikeshedding. What really matters is ensuring systems deliver the service levels users expect. That’s where AI comes in. Read the full article on Causely Blog
Maintenance involves functional checks, servicing, repairing, or replacing necessary devices, equipment, machinery, building infrastructure, and supporting utilities This definition from Wikipedia aptly describes what we, as maintainers, do. A significant portion of our time is spent on upkeep. While some of this work is enjoyable, many tasks are tedious and exhausting. To alleviate this, we are exploring ways to automate some of these tasks. One popular option is incorporating GitHub Actions into our repository. ...
A comprehensive review of the OpenTelemetry.io website in 2024, covering achievements, milestones, and community contributions. Read the full article on OpenTelemetry Blog
We are happy to announce that the OpenTelemetry website is available in multiple languages! Localization teams have already started to translate website pages into Chinese, Japanese, Portuguese, and Spanish. Read the full article on OpenTelemetry Blog
A wrap-up of the successful OpenTelemetry in Focus series for 2023, highlighting key discussions and community engagement throughout the year. Read the full article on OpenTelemetry Blog