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Hosting a game show

A few months ago, my co-worker Tyler and I were discussing how it would be a lot of fun to host a game show to engage with an audience at...

Reflecting on an incredible year in OpenTelemetry

And just like this, we’re fast approaching the end of 2023. This year has been an incredible year for OpenTelemetry. The project has reached a new milestone, and continues to...

Bye bye logging exporter, hello debug exporter!

Last week, a new version of the OpenTelemetry Collector was released which includes a new and game-changing exporter, the debug exporter. Now, to be honest, it’s neither new nor game-changing....

Building the Collector, can't someone else do it?

The OpenTelemetry Collector Builder is a tool that allows users to compile their own custom instance of the Collector. This is useful in a few different scenarios. Maybe the existing...

A user interface for OpenTelemetry

The OpenTelemetry demo application version 1.4 was released in April of 2023. If you’re unfamiliar with the demo, it is comprised of many micro services written in various languages. The...

Understanding the OpenTelemetry Collector

The following is an excerpt of Cloud Native Observability with OpenTelemetry