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Why OpenTelemetry is such a game changer
[Update with Video] As someone who’s been in the field of observability for over 21 years, helping clients with application performance monitoring and management (aka APM), I’ve seen my share of breakthroughs and changes. But OpenTelemetry genuinely surprised me earlier this year; it’s the revolution that observability needed, a “tool” I believe should have existed…
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Let’s talk about Context
The o11y space is buzzing with activity and I like that. Things are moving and it looks as if we finally get a place at the big table. One thing I read a couple of times in the last weeks was the complexity in O11y and that context matters. Those 2 are interwoven and understanding…
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What is Observability?
What is Observability? besides a mouthful of syllables? I’ll use O11y (pronounced OLLY) from now on to make it a little easier. Here is my take on a short (!) intro into the nature of it.O11y is a composite strategy involving inspecting a service’s performance, availability, quality, and how it affects other system components based…
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My OTel journey – week 1
This is the story of someone – me to be precise – who decided to learn more about OpenTelemetry after working 20 years for 4 commercial APM vendors. So I am very curious about what standards and technical solutions evolved over that time. OTel Log Day 1 – 8.3.2024 – Deciding how to start After…
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Hello – To Observability & Beyond
Welcome to the Observability Heroes. Our mission is to bring more heroes into this world. Heroes of Observability or O11y for short. O11y is a necessity for an IT world with distributed system that change often and a running in an ever changing infrastructure all over the world. If you want to make sure your…
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