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What is OpenTelemetry Collector

What is the OpenTelemetry Collector and How Does It Work?

The OpenTelemetry Collector simplifies data collection, processing, and export for metrics, logs, and traces. Learn about its architecture, deployment, and examples.

Prathamesh Sonpatki
Prathamesh Sonpatki
How to handle whitespaces in the OTLP Headers with Python Otel SDK

Whitespace in OTLP headers and OpenTelemetry Python SDK

How to handle whitespaces in the OTLP Headers with Python Otel SDK

Prathamesh Sonpatki
Prathamesh Sonpatki

The most important aspect of software monitoring

Ths single most important thing to get better at your software monitoring journey

Aniket Rao
Aniket Rao

Prometheus Toolkit: Your Essential Companion for Monitoring

Building a standardized open-source resource across instrumentation, query, and alerting pipelines to start your monitoring journey with Prometheus.

Sahil Khan
Sahil Khan

Building Monitoring with Auto-Discovery for 70+ Microservices

The promise of a managed SaaS partner — Reducing monitoring costs at all costs

Preeti Dewani
Preeti Dewani

What needs to change in software monitoring?

A wishlist of things that need to change in the world of software monitoring

Aniket Rao
Aniket Rao
How We Cut Monitoring Costs and Deprecated Thanos at Replit

How We Cut Monitoring Costs and Deprecated Thanos at Replit

Winning Replit over by taming High Cardinality data and deprecating Thanos

Prathamesh Sonpatki
Prathamesh Sonpatki
Back to the Future: The R-C-A of alerting

Back to the Future: The R-C-A of alerting

Dissecting the RCA of Alerting - Reliability, Correlations, Actionability

Aditya Godbole
Aditya Godbole
Launching Alert Studio

Launching Alert Studio

Modern monitoring systems depend heavily on ‘Alerting’ to reduce the Mean Time to Detect (MTTD) faulty systems. But, alerting hasn’t evolved to meet the demands of modern architectures. We’re changing that with Alert Studio.

Aditya Godbole
Aditya Godbole