A Microsoft engineer demonstrates how WebAssembly modules can run alongside containers in Kubernetes environments, offering benefits like reduced size and faster cold start times for certain workloads.
The article discusses the future of observability in 2025, highlighting the significant role of OpenTelemetry and AI in improving observability and reducing costs.
Version 3.0 of the popular open-source monitoring system Prometheus has been released, with enhancements focused on a new user interface, OpenTelemetry support, and other new features aimed at improving user experience and streamlining workflows.
A reflection on the key achievements, contributions, and community efforts of 2024 for OpenTelemetry, including multilingual documentation and IA improvements.
Jaeger, a leading open-source distributed tracing platform, releases its version 2, which aligns with the OpenTelemetry framework, bringing improved performance, streamlined architecture, and native support for OTLP. The update includes advanced sampling techniques, expanded ecosystem access, and a more flexible storage implementation.
Jaeger, a popular open-source distributed tracing platform, has released version 2, which aligns its architecture with the OpenTelemetry Collector. This new version brings significant improvements, including native OpenTelemetry support, batched data processing, and access to OpenTelemetry features and ecosystem.
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) announces the expansion of OpenTelemetry into CI/CD observability, enabling standardized and vendor-agnostic monitoring of CI/CD pipelines.
Cloudflare, an internet infrastructure and security company, has upgraded its logging pipeline by migrating from syslog-ng to OpenTelemetry Collector. This change affects one of Cloudflare's largest data pipelines, processing millions of log events per second.
**Key Points**
* **Motivations:** Language compatibility, easier integration, enhanced metrics, and unified telemetry infrastructure.
* **Custom Components:** Custom exporter, modified file exporter, processors, and rate-limiters.
* **Migration and Future Plans:** Careful rollout, monitoring, and plans for more sophisticated log sampling techniques and open-source contributions.
* **Other Adopters:** Google, Splunk, Shopify, and GitHub are also adopting OpenTelemetry for various use cases.
**Key Points**
* **Motivations:** Language compatibility, easier integration, enhanced metrics, and unified telemetry infrastructure.
* **Custom Components:** Custom exporter, modified file exporter, processors, and rate-limiters.
* **Migration and Future Plans:** Careful rollout, monitoring, and plans for more sophisticated log sampling techniques and open-source contributions.
* **Other Adopters:** Google, Splunk, Shopify, and GitHub are also adopting OpenTelemetry for various use cases.
The article explores the evolution of observability from traditional APM tools (Observability 1.0) to a more developer-focused approach (Observability 2.0). Observability 2.0 aims to provide real-time, actionable insights and empower developers throughout the software development lifecycle, addressing technical debt and enhancing the developer experience.
This Splunk Lantern blog post highlights new articles on instrumenting LLMs with Splunk, leveraging Kubernetes for Splunk, and using Splunk Asset and Risk Intelligence.
