Jul 5, 2025 · 20 min read · Imagine you’re running a modern ecommerce application buzzing with services talking to each other, users add products to cart, checkout happens, payments get processed, orders get packed, shipments go out the door. It’s distributed. It’s messy. And t...
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Jun 24, 2025 · 2 min read · As organizations adopt cloud-native architectures, observability becomes essential. The OpenTelemetry Collector (OTel Collector) provides a flexible, vendor-neutral way to collect and export telemetry data. In this guide, we’ll walk through deploying...
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Jun 18, 2025 · 7 min read · The OpenTelemetry Collector (OTel Collector) is a vendor-agnostic service that helps you collect, process, and export telemetry data (metrics, logs, and traces) from your applications. It is a core component of the OpenTelemetry ecosystem and plays a...
Join discussionApr 20, 2025 · 8 min read · In cloud-native environments, it's crucial to have visibility into your services' performance and behavior. OpenTelemetry provides a standardized framework for collecting traces, metrics, and logs, which can help you monitor the health of your applic...
Join discussionFeb 4, 2025 · 2 min read · In modern observability, capturing and storing every trace can quickly become impractical due to storage costs and noise from less relevant data. Tail sampling is a powerful technique that enables smarter trace retention by evaluating full traces bef...
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Aug 29, 2024 · 2 min read · Introduction In Spring Boot applications utilizing OpenTelemetry for distributed tracing, otel.propagators is a configuration property used to specify which context propagation formats OpenTelemetry should use. W3C Trace Context The tracecontext valu...
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Aug 24, 2024 · 2 min read · Introduction An OpenTelemetry Collector receives telemetry data, including spans, often in the OpenTelemetry Protocol (OTLP) format. While OTLP is primarily defined in Protobuf, it also has a JSON encoding. Here's an example of a single OTLP trace sp...
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Aug 23, 2024 · 2 min read · Introduction On occasion you may find yourself in a situation where you have a project setup and you need to make sure your observability stack is working as expected. On this article we will explore a number of alternatives you can deploy to simulat...
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