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8 pages tagged with "open source"

Data Persistence in the OpenTelemetry Collector

2023 January 18 - 744 words - 4 mins - opentelemetry open source blog
What happens if the OpenTelemetry collector cannot send data? Will it drop, queue in memory or on disk? Let's find out which settings are available and how they work! To check how queuing works, I've set up a small test environment. This environment consists of several data sources (postgresql, col… read more

Use OpenTelemetry to Auto Instrument WordPress

2022 November 01 - 1409 words - 8 mins - opentelemetry open source blog
OpenTelemetry is often associated with modern microservices and cloud-native applications. What happens if we apply OpenTelemetry and modern observability techniques to something completely different? WordPress is the world's most popular weblog software. And it's also an almost 20 years old monolit… read more

Where is the OpenTelemetry RFC?

2022 May 24 - 184 words - 1 mins - opentelemetry open source
In one of my talks about OpenTelemetry I got a great question: Where is the RFC of the OpenTelemetry protocol? I've found the answer for you. OpenTelemetry is a project managed by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). And the foundation doesn't make standards, but specifications. They explai… read more

Splunk eventgen now supports negative values

2019 February 15 - 386 words - 2 mins - patch open source
The Netherlands is a country with a lot of water. A big part of the country is even below sea level. And we even have a branch of government whose only concern is water management, water boards. I had the opportunity to show one of the boards how their work could be more efficient, based on data. As… read more

Image uploading fixed for Wordpress IOS-app

2011 January 24 - 77 words - 1 mins - patch open source
We are using Wordpress in a not so common configuration: our installation is hosted with a self-signed ssl cert, and behind http-auth. With this setup image uploading fails when using the IOS app. I've created a patch for the app to fix this behaviour. The patch was accepted revision 1427. read more

Small bug fix in wordpress plugin

2011 January 18 - 84 words - 1 mins - patch open source
In the wordpress CMS, a thumbnail can be added to a post. You have to add this thumbnail manually to a post, even when the post contains an image. The 'Automatic Post Thumbnail' plugin automates the addition of thumbnails to posts. read more

Quarters added to org-mode

2010 November 29 - 109 words - 1 mins - patch open source
Org-mode is part of the emacs text editor. It is a versatile ToDo-list manager, project planner, life manager. Org-mode has the ability to show information grouped by day, week, month or year. I added grouping by quarters to this list. My patch is accepted and is part of org-mode since the 7.4 versi… read more

InPlaceRichEditor autosize patch

2008 July 01 - 57 words - 1 mins - patch open source
In the 1.3 version of InPlaceRichEditor, a script which enables TinyMCE to be used as a edit in place editor, lives a patch I created. This patch assures the TinyMCE editor is the same size as the text to be edited. InPlaceRichEditor is made by Sébastien Grosjean. read more