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Strengthening our commitment to the OpenTelemetry project
Carter Socha | April 20, 2023Lightstep is the first company to natively provide customers with complete control of their telemetry pipeline which saves time and money, and provides the freedom to innovate at scale. By embracing OpenTelemetry support without vendor lock-in, Lightstep helps you make complex app development easier and faster.
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Understanding static site performance with OpenTelemetry
Austin Parker | Jun 22, 2020This article shows you how to use OpenTelemetry to understand the performance of static sites, generated using tools like Hugo or Gatsby, and to collect telemetry from them with the OpenTelemetry collector.
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OTel Me More: OpenTelemetry Project News – Vol 30
Eric O'Rear | Jun 17, 2020Vol 30 of OpenTelemetry project news. The OpenTelemetry Collector has reached beta!
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OTel Me More: OpenTelemetry Project News – Vol 29
Eric O'Rear | Jun 10, 2020Vol 29 of OpenTelemetry project news. OpenTelemetry SIGs are looking for extra support! Open source efforts rely on developers like you.
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OTel Me More: OpenTelemetry Project News – Vol 28
Eric O'Rear | May 27, 2020Vol 28 of OpenTelemetry project news. The OpenTelemetry log data model is now official, aiming to successfully represent 3 sorts of logs and events: system formats, third-party applications, and first-party applications.
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OTel Me More: OpenTelemetry Project News – Vol 27
Eric O'Rear | May 19, 2020Vol 27 of OpenTelemetry project news. OpenTelemetry had the second highest number of contributions across all CNCF projects over the past quarter!
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OTel Me More: OpenTelemetry Project News – Vol 26
Eric O'Rear | May 12, 2020Vol 26 of OpenTelemetry project news. The v0.4 spec for the Metric API has been approved and merged and the OpenTelemetry client has been updated to 0.5.0.
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Python Auto-instrumentation with OpenTelemetry
Alex Boten | May 11, 2020This article will cover how to auto-instrument and inspect a simple Python application using OpenTelemetry and Lightstep, while discussing the benefits and shortcomings of the automated approach.
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OTel Me More: OpenTelemetry Project News – Vol 25
Eric O'Rear | May 5, 2020Vol 25 of OpenTelemetry project news. The Lightstep OpenTelemetry Python and HoneyComb OpenTelemetry Go exporter has been updated.
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OTel Me More: OpenTelemetry Project News – Vol 24
Eric O'Rear | Apr 28, 2020Vol 24 of OpenTelemetry project news. OTel Me More now has its own Gitter!
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