This video demonstrates how to process and parse semgrep output using the OpenTelemetry Collector. First the JSON reports are saved to disk, read by the collector and parsed. Then we dynamically enrich the report with new key value pairs, drop log attributes to save money and finally create metrics from the log JSON data.
In this video I demonstrate how to take log content and extract the metric value, transforming logs to metrics using the transform processor and the metricsgeneration processor.
In this video I demonstrate the new OpenTelemetry injector. It's a mechanism to automatically inject OTEL into your code with zero code or startup script changes. It's potentially a great way to gain Observability of non Kubernetes workloads like VMs.
I dive into AGENTS.md and test its effectiveness to find that it isn't what you might think. At best it's a hint to your model. At worst, it's a waste of context / tokens and thus a waste of money. My results show only 1/5 models I tested actually enforced the rules I stipulated in AGENTS.md and I'm not alone - published research shows the same trend.
I discuss the research + some strategies that might help you.
The Kubernetes dashboard is officially deprecated and it's time to investigate an alternative.
In this video I explore the officially recommended replacement - Headlamp.
In this video I use mazen160's fantastic secrets regex list to build filter and transform processors rules for the OpenTelemetry collector. This configuration blocks 883 different API tokens, keys and sensitive strings from ever reaching your observability backend systems.
Distributed tracing works like the childrens game "pass the parcel". That statement seems like a little bit of Christmas fun (it is also that), but it turns out it's actually quite a good analogy for how distributed tracing in OpenTelemetry work under the hood.
Let's take a look!
osquery is a fantastic little tool, typically used in security setups, which turns your endpoints into a queryable SQL database (eg. SELECT * from processes).
In this video I show you how to grab that data and send it to your Observability system so that now, both Observability (APM) data and security data can co-exist in a single place.
Did you know it's possible to generate a real-time map of your Kubernetes cluster using DNS? Here's how...
Track token counts, model usage, tool usage and "developer idle time" (the time you sit waiting for an answer when using Google's Gemini CLI and the OpenTelemetry collector. In this video, I show you how...