As the manager of the Observability team at my current company, I find myself in a rather unique position. As part of my job, I get to define the “golden path” of Observability here. …

If you’re new to the Unpacking Observability series, welcome! If you’ve been following along from the start, thanks for tagging along for the ride! Observability Recap: Observability lets us understand a system from the outside, by letting us ask questions, without knowing the inner workings of that system. Observability allows…

Why should Kubernetes get all the love? There are tons of examples out there on how to deploy the OpenTelemetry (OTel) Collector to Kubernetes. When it comes to deploying the OTel Collector on Nomad, however, you don’t see a lot of stuff out there. Sure, you might see some sample Nomad jobspecs to get you started, but…

So you’re new to Observability and OpenTelemetry and Lighststep and you want to send traces to Lighstep to get a feel for the flow of things. But you’re not sure how to get started. There’s a LOT to learn and take in, and things can get pretty overwhelming, pretty fast…

In the last couple of weeks, I spent a ton of time looking at different ways to send OpenTelemetry (OTel) data to Lightstep. In case the super-obvious title didn’t tip you off already, there are three different ways to do so: Direct from application OpenTelemetry Collector Launchers (via Collector or…

In my last OpenTelemetry blog post, I talked about how to send OpenTelemetry (OTel) data to Lightstep using Golang. That’s all well and good if you’re a Golang developer, but what if you use Python? …

In my last blog post, I showed y’all how to instrument Python code with OpenTelemetry (OTel), à la auto-instrumentation. You may also recall from that post that I recommended using the Python auto-instrumentation binary even for non-auto-instrumented libraries, because it abstracts all that pesky OTel config stuff so nicely. …

If you’re new to OpenTelemetry and want to see it in action in a real-life example, the OpenTelemetry Demo app is a great way to get started quickly. In one of my previous blog posts, I showed you how to get the demo app up and running and sending Traces…

with Ana Margarita Medina If you follow Adriana’s writings on Observability Adriana’s writings on Observability , you may recall a post from back in June introducing the concept of Observability-Landscape-as-Code (OLaC) Observability-Landscape-as-Code (OLaC) . An Observability Landscape is made up of the following pieces: Application instrumentation Collecting and storing application…

Y’all…I’m so excited, because I finally got to work on an item on my tech bucket list. Last week, I began the process of translating OpenTelemetry (OTel) Demo App’s Helm Charts to HashiCorp Nomad job specs. Today I’ll be talking about how to run the OpenTelemetry Demo App on Nomad…

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…