@jpkroehling
Software Engineer at OllyGarden, OpenTelemetry Governing Board Member, CNCF Ambassador
🚀 Building Solutions in Observability | Co-Founder of OllyGarden As the co-founder of OllyGarden, I focus on creating tools and frameworks that enhance observability and address challenges in telemetry and distributed systems. My work leverages expertise in OpenTelemetry and insights from industry collaborations to develop practical, scalable solutions.
💡 A Career Rooted in Technology and Innovation With experience spanning startups, enterprise environments, and global collaborations, I bring a well-rounded approach to building software systems. My focus areas include observability practices, data pipelines, and message queue processing, ensuring reliability and efficiency in modern systems.
🤝 Collaborating Across the Ecosystem I value working with and learning from others in the technology ecosystem. Through discussions with experts and partnerships, I continuously seek to address industry challenges and uncover new opportunities for growth and innovation.
🌱 Continuous Development I am dedicated to refining my skills in software engineering and advancing observability practices. By staying engaged with emerging technologies and trends, I aim to develop solutions that address real-world challenges and drive progress in the field.
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Feb 17 · 6 min read · Understanding when to use logs, traces, or metrics is fundamental to building effective observability. Each signal serves a distinct purpose, and choosing the right one for a given situation directly impacts your ability to debug, monitor, and unders...
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Feb 4 · 5 min read · The quarterly budget review arrives, and the observability line item has doubled again. The reflexive response is familiar: "We need to sample more aggressively" or "Let's only observe critical services." These tactics will reduce costs. They will al...
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Jan 19 · 4 min read · Your logs are probably at least 80% repetitive noise. Connection retries, health checks, heartbeat messages: the same log line repeated thousands of times per minute. You pay storage costs for each one while the signal drowns in noise. The OpenTeleme...
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Jan 6 · 7 min read · The OpenTelemetry community has grown tremendously over the past few years, and with that growth comes valuable insights hidden in our community conversations. We analyzed nearly 10,000 messages from the #otel-collector and #opentelemetry Slack chann...
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