Issue 248
Plenty of OpenTelemetry goodness this week, along with fortune telling from Grafana and a super insightful look at design challenges in our tooling. Enjoy! 💡📟🌈
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Observability & Monitoring Community Slack
Come hang out with all your fellow Monitoring Weekly readers. I mean, I’m also there, but I’m sure everyone else is way cooler.
From The Community
Understanding the Challenges of Color Blindness on the Web
A fascinating look at the problems faced by color-blind users who rely on monitoring tools designed with strong associations between colors and system states. Obviously these aren’t the only applications suffering from these types of design challenges, but I for one have certainly been guilty of this in the past.
How to customize DataDog Flame Graph
TIL you could customize your Datadog instrumentation to produce more detailed flame graphs. 🔥
What you need to know before creating your first OpenTelemetry pipeline for tracing
I love this story documenting the journey of considerations, planning, and lessons learned from adopting something as invasive as distributed tracing. Excellent post.
Observability trends and predictions for 2024
Probably some bias here, but still an interesting bit of prognostication from different folks at Grafana Labs.
Grafana 10.2.3 release: new features and breaking changes
Speaking of Grafana, the latest release includes a breaking change to the extract fields transformation. Make sure to communicate this to your internal teams who might be affected.
Building a Secure OpenTelemetry Collector
Most users probably won’t need to know how to do this, but if you’re curious about building your own custom OpenTelemetry collector images, the OCB has you covered.
The Challenges of “Observability”
A post that I both applaud for its sincerity and empathize strongly with based on my own frustrations with trends I’ve observed over the years. OTOH, the notion that #monitoringsucks is nothing new, and I’ve yet to hear of any company that went under because their observability tooling was flawed.
SRE Stories is out with a fresh interview, this time from a Senior Observability Engineer with a passion for OpenTelemetry.
How to auto-instrument your applications
Auto-instrumentation is all the rage these days and the Elastic Stack isn’t about to be left behind.
Events
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Monitorama PDX 2024 takes place June 10-12 in Portland, OR. The CFP closes in three short weeks… hope to see you there!
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See you next week!
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