PinnedWhat is OpenTelemetry?You may have heard of it, but what is this open source project represented by a telescope all about? And why do we need it?Oct 29, 2020Oct 29, 2020
Building the OpenTelemetry CollectorThe OpenTelemetry Collector Builder is a tool that allows users to compile their own custom instance of the Collector. This is useful in a…Aug 21, 2023Aug 21, 2023
A user interface for OpenTelemetryThe OpenTelemetry demo application version 1.4 was released in April of 2023. If you’re unfamiliar with the demo, it is comprised of many…Apr 26, 2023Apr 26, 2023
Understanding the OpenTelemetry CollectorWouldn’t it be great to configure an exporter once, and then use only configuration files to modify the destination of the data? There is.Jun 20, 2022Jun 20, 2022
Disabling go modules in Visual Studio CodeIf you’ve been struggling with go modules and VSCode, this might just help you outMay 26, 2020May 26, 2020
Published inLevel Up CodingPython Auto-instrumentation with OpenTelemetryYou want use distributed tracing, but don’t have the time to revisit the codebase of your services, auto-instrumentation to the rescue!May 12, 20202May 12, 20202
Setting up BPF Experiments on MacOSOne of the biggest pains in the butt to writing BPF code on MacOS is getting the right environment setup…Apr 24, 20203Apr 24, 20203
Tests, delivery and other important things in software developmentThere’s a scene from the Simpson episode “Lisa the Simpson” where Lisa appears on a television broadcast to make an appeal to the…Oct 1, 2019Oct 1, 2019
Stop saying this sh*t in the officeHere comes a rant. There’s a handful of words that I hear people using repeatedly that make my skin crawl…Jun 10, 20194Jun 10, 20194
Redis-tributed: Distributed Tracing through RedisDistributed applications come in all shapes and sizes. I set out to find out if it was possible to use Redis to propagate tracing data…Mar 30, 20191Mar 30, 20191