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OTel Updates: OpenTelemetry eBPF Instrumentation (OBI) Hits Alpha

OTel Updates: OpenTelemetry eBPF Instrumentation (OBI) Hits Alpha

OpenTelemetry eBPF Instrumentation (OBI) is now in alpha, bringing protocol-level telemetry capture without code changes or restarts.

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Anjali Udasi

Anjali Udasi

OpenTelemetry Metrics in Quarkus Explained

OpenTelemetry Metrics in Quarkus Explained

Understand how to enable, export, and extend OpenTelemetry metrics in your Quarkus application with practical examples.

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Anjali Udasi

Anjali Udasi

How Prometheus Exporters Work With OpenTelemetry

How Prometheus Exporters Work With OpenTelemetry

Learn how Prometheus exporters expose OTLP metrics in Prometheus format, making it easier to scrape OpenTelemetry data.

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Anjali Udasi

Anjali Udasi

What Are AI Guardrails

What Are AI Guardrails

Learn the core concepts of AI guardrails and how they create safer, more reliable, and well-structured AI systems in production.

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Anjali Udasi

Anjali Udasi

Grafana Tempo: Setup, Configuration, and Best Practices

Grafana Tempo: Setup, Configuration, and Best Practices

A practical guide to setting up Grafana Tempo, configuring key components, and understanding how to use tracing across your services.

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Anjali Udasi

Anjali Udasi

OTel Updates: Declarative Config — A Steadier Way to Configure OpenTelemetry SDKs

OTel Updates: Declarative Config — A Steadier Way to Configure OpenTelemetry SDKs

Declarative Config brings structure to OTel SDKs with clean, rule-based settings that stay consistent across every environment.

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Anjali Udasi

Anjali Udasi

Sidecar or Agent for OpenTelemetry: How to Decide

Sidecar or Agent for OpenTelemetry: How to Decide

Sidecar or agent? See when per-service isolation beats node-level efficiency, and how gateways fit into a scalable OTel pipeline.

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Anjali Udasi

Anjali Udasi

OTel Updates: Consistent Probability Sampling Fixes Fragmented Traces

OTel Updates: Consistent Probability Sampling Fixes Fragmented Traces

One sampling decision, propagated everywhere. OpenTelemetry's Consistent Probability Sampling fixes fragmented traces across services.

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Anjali Udasi

Anjali Udasi

OpenTelemetry Spans Explained: Deconstructing Distributed Tracing

OpenTelemetry Spans Explained: Deconstructing Distributed Tracing

Understand how OpenTelemetry Spans capture, connect, and explain every operation in your distributed system for deeper visibility.

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Anjali Udasi

Anjali Udasi