3 pages tagged with "opentelemetry"

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

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

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