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Security vulnerability in OTel Collector confighttp and configgrpc (CVE-2024-36129)
Wednesday, June 05, 2024 in 2024
On our path toward graduation, the OpenTelemetry project is currently undergoing a security audit sponsored by the CNCF, facilitated by OSTIF, and performed by 7ASecurity. During this process, we have received a few ideas about things that we could …
An Introduction to Observability for LLM-based applications using OpenTelemetry
Tuesday, June 04, 2024 in 2024
Large Language Models (LLMs) are really popular right now, especially considering the wide range of applications that they have from simple chatbots to Copilot bots that are helping software engineers write code. Seeing the growing use of LLMs in …
Abandoned Go Contrib modules need code owners or will be removed
Tuesday, May 28, 2024 in 2024
The Go SIG will remove the code of contrib modules that lack code owners starting August 21, 2024. Published packages and releases will be marked as deprecated, though they’ll remain available for download. Currently unowned modules include the …
OpenTelemetry Java Metrics Performance Comparison
Friday, May 24, 2024 in 2024
Arguably the biggest value proposition of OpenTelemetry is that it aims to be a language agnostic, general purpose observability standard. By providing tools for traces, metrics, and logs (and profiling coming soon!), and implementations across many …
Introducing the new container log parser for OpenTelemetry Collector
Wednesday, May 22, 2024 in 2024
Filelog receiver is one of the most commonly used components of the OpenTelemetry Collector, as indicated by the most recent survey. According to the same survey, it’s unsurprising that Kubernetes is the leading platform for Collector …
Things You Might Not Have Known About the OpenTelemetry Operator - An OTel Operator Q&A
Monday, May 13, 2024 in 2024
The OpenTelemetry (OTel) Operator is a Kubernetes Operator that manages OTel for you in your Kubernetes cluster to make life a little easier. It does the following: Manages deployment of the OpenTelemetry Collector, supported by the …
Insights from the OpenTelemetry Collector Survey
Wednesday, May 08, 2024 in 2024
The OpenTelemetry (OTel) Collector has become a cornerstone tool for observing and monitoring modern software applications. Recently, the End User SIG conducted a survey to gather feedback from users about their experiences with the OTel Collector. …
The roadmap to v1 for the OpenTelemetry Collector
Monday, May 06, 2024 in 2024
The OpenTelemetry Collector is a very popular component in OpenTelemetry that has been under heavy development for quite some time. It is a binary that allows many formats of telemetry to be sent to it, transformed, and emitted to a destination. Much …
Dude, where's my error? How OpenTelemetry records errors
Friday, April 19, 2024 in 2024
Depending on the language you’re used to developing in, you may have certain ideas about what an error is, as well as what constitutes an exception and how it should be handled. For example, Go doesn’t have exceptions, partly to discourage …
Manage OpenTelemetry Collectors at scale with Ansible
Monday, April 15, 2024 in 2024
You can scale the deployment of OpenTelemetry Collector across multiple Linux hosts through Ansible, to function both as gateways and agents within your observability architecture. Using the OpenTelemetry Collector in this dual capacity enables a …