Get started with OTel Logs for Python apps on K8s and learn how to auto-instrument logs via auto-instrumentation with the OTel Operator — Do you want to get started with OpenTelemetry (OTel) Logs in a Python app running on Kubernetes, but aren’t sure how to go about it? What if I told you that it’s not as scary as you think and that you can leverage the OTel Operator for OTel Logs auto-instrumentation?

So, you’re new to auto-instrumentation with the OTel Operator. You’ve just taken your first stab at auto-instrumenting your app using the Operator’s Instrumentation custom resource (CR). You’ve added an auto-instrumentation annotation to your service. But…IT’S. NOT. WORKING! WHYYYY??? 💀 Don’t panic, my friend! I’ve totally been there, and today, I…

Ever heard of the Target Allocator (TA)? Don’t fret if you haven’t. You’re not alone. I certainly hadn’t. That is, not until Iris Dyrmishi mentioned it at one of our recent OTel Q&A sessions, after which, I had to look it up. And it sent my head spinning. Initially, I…

Collaborations are awesome. You bring a set of skills to the table, and the other person brings another set of skills to the table. I’ve been lucky to collaborate with great folks and organizations over the past year, like Tracetest in February and in June, and Syntasso in April. In…

With contributions from Rynn Mancuso (Honeycomb) and Reese Lee (New Relic). On Thursday, May 25th, 2023, the OpenTelemetry (OTel) End User Working Group hosted its third End User Q&A session of 2023. We had a bit of a gap due to KubeCon Europe, but now we’re back! This series is…

This post was originally published on the Syntasso blog. SRE teams are probably equally annoyed by requests from development teams. They don’t want to spend their time fulfilling service requests to install things like PostgreSQL, RabbitMQ, and Nginx on Kubernetes clusters for developers. This is honestly a waste of an…

This article was originally published on LeadDev.com on January 12th, 2023. Recently, in the midst of our busy work-from-home schedules, my husband and I managed to carve out some time over lunch to hang out. On this particular day, he was super frustrated. He hadn’t been sleeping very well because…

Originally published at https://opentelemetry.io on March 20, 2023. With contributions from Rynn Mancuso (Honeycomb) and Reese Lee (New Relic). On Thursday, March 2nd, 2023, the OpenTelemetry (OTel) End User Working Group hosted its second End User Q&A session of 2023. This series is a monthly casual discussion with a team…

The concept of Trace-based testing (TBT) was first presented by my awesome colleague, Ted Young, at KubeCon North America 2018. The idea behind it was simple, yet elegant: if you’re already creating distributed Traces in your application code, why not use this same Trace data to create test assertions to…