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Gain agility through observability
Heather Waters | January 19, 2023As we navigate geopolitical challenges, macroeconomic headwinds, and the post-pandemic comedown, there is pressure to drive transformation, reduce costs, and be more efficient. See how observability can help you rise to the challenge and be more agile.
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OTel Me More: OpenTelemetry Project News - Vol 4
Isobel Redelmeier | Sep 29, 2019In this (and future) posts, you can find the latest news and updates from the OpenTelemetry project. We also plan to share information about relevant events, community activities, and awesome articles.
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OTel Me More: OpenTelemetry Project News - Vol 3
Isobel Redelmeier | Sep 22, 2019Vol 3 of OpenTelemetry project news. Including recorded talks from Strange Loop as well as some good-first-issue recommendations from the opentelemetry-go SDK.
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OTel Me More: OpenTelemetry Project News - Vol 2
Isobel Redelmeier | Sep 15, 2019Vol 2 of OpenTelemetry project news. This week’s news includes a major announcement from Datadog as well as continued progress within the open source project.
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“Easy Instrumentation” or “Portable Instrumentation” — Choose Two
Ben Sigelman | Sep 12, 2019Lightstep’s Satellite Architecture now natively supports the data format of these contributed auto-instrumentation libraries. This means that you can start using them now, independent of OpenTelemetry’s development timeline.
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OTel Me More: OpenTelemetry Project News - Vol 1
Isobel Redelmeier | Sep 9, 2019Vol 1 of OpenTelemetry project news. With Tracing now in Alpha, the Metrics and Context APIs are targeted for a September 15th Alpha release.
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The Best Kind of 'People Problems' – What Made the OpenTelemetry Launch Special
Ben Sigelman | May 23, 2019This article discusses the launch of Opentelemetry at KubeCon EMEA 2019 (and how it almost didn't happen). We're looking forward to many more satisfying launches to come as we make high-quality telemetry data a built-in feature of cloud-native software.
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