Issue 131
Really glad to be back from vacation. Seems it was a busy week for CNCF-related topics – plenty of observability and OpenTelemetry-related posts to chew on. Enjoy! 🔎📖😎
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Observability & Monitoring Community Slack
Come hang out with all your fellow Monitoring Weekly readers. This past week there was a lot of discussion around OTel and some job postings in our #jobs channel. Join our Slack so you don’t miss out! 😃
From The Community
The modern flows of connectivity — API Gateways and Service Meshes
A broader look at microservice interactions along with some thoughts about their observability.
OpenTelemetry — Observability as a standard
How to benefit from tracing your Flask applications with OpenTelemetry.
Understanding How To Monitor a Spark Cluster
Metrics and monitoring considerations for Spark clusters.
Dictionary to Open Observability Projects
Confused by all of the “Open” projects related to observability? You’re not the only one. Useful breakdown of the ecosystem of oft-misunderstood CNCF projects.
Key Metrics for Monitoring Amazon EFS
An excellent review of Amazon EFS metrics to keep tabs on.
AWS multi-account data platform monitoring
Complicated AWS service transactional monitoring is complicated.
KUR8: Start Visualizing Your Cluster’s Topology and Metrics
An interesting new tool from the OSLabs tech accelerator program, KUR8 leverages the strengths of Prometheus with an interface optimized for managing Kubernetes clusters.
Second Time Lucky with OpenTelemetry
We’ve all heard from folks wondering how to contribute or get involved with open source. Here’s a nice story of a contributor who tried-tried again to get accepted into the Linux Foundation Mentorship program for OpenTelemetry.
An appetizer-sized introduction to Prometheus, Node Exporter, and instrumenting your Python app.
Gain Security Visibility with System Monitoring
I’m seeing more collaboration (and overlap) between Observability and Security teams than ever before. This story touches on a big part of that – supporting security controls and processes with system logs.
Grafana 8.1 released: New Geomap and Annotations panels, updated plugin management, and more
Seems like Grafana 8.0 just came out a few days ago. Now Grafana 8.1 is already out, with some notable enhancements and some new panels.
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Tools
“A visual overview of Kubernetes architecture and Prometheus metrics.”
Events
After 35 years, USENIX is marking the end of the LISA conference. Sad to see this go, it was a big part of my early career as a Systems Administrator.
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See you next week!
– Jason (@obfuscurity) Monitoring Weekly Editor