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...
A technical deep dive explanation of how OpenTelemetry distributed tracing really works under the hood with examples using Python, FastAPI and the requests module and Jaeger. I discuss the traceparent header and its importance in correctly stitching a trace together end-to-end.
In this video I cover the top 10 ways and methods that I find myself using at customers to process their log files using the OpenTelemetry collector.
Let's face it, updating multiple repositories is a pain. It slows us down and is really hard work. Well, no more! Multi Gitter is a CLI tool to update as many repositories as you like with a single command.
You can enrich your metrics, logs and traces in REALTIME using CSV data and the OpenTelemetry collector. This video shows you how to build a custom collector using the OpenTelemetry Collector Builder (ocb) and how to process, match and enrich log lines with CSV data.
In this video I show how to convert any input signal type (metrics, logs, distributed traces or profiles) into metrics using the signaltometric connector in the OpenTelemetry collector.
In this post & video I'll explain how to get metrics from a Kubernetes cluster the easy way. Starting with service discovery and http_sd_config then using the OpenTelemetry Target Allocator.