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Effective and Efficient Observability with OpenTelemetry
Daniel Gomez Blanco, principal engineer at Skyscanner, shared his experiences at QCon London on a large-scale observability initiative at his company, based on adopting OpenTelemetry across hundreds of services and the motivation and value gained from adopting open standards across the entire organization.
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AWS Lambda Telemetry API Provides Enhanced Observability Data
AWS has released the AWS Lambda Telemetry API, a new way for extensions to receive enhanced function telemetry from the Lambda service. The new API simplifies collecting traces, logs, and custom and enhanced metrics from Lambda functions. Along with several example extensions, there are several extensions available from third parties including Datadog, Dynatrace, Serverless, and Sumo Logic.
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New Metrics Capabilities for OpenTelemetry on Azure Monitor
Microsoft released for preview a series of updates to its Azure Monitor OpenTelemetry Exporter packages for .NET, Node.js and Python applications.
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Rookout Launches Live Logger to Dynamically Modify Log Verbosity
Rookout, creators of Live Debugger, have launched Live Logger with the goal of making the wealth of information hidden in production logs more accessible. They intend to achieve that by dynamically switching the logging levels, log pipelining, log throughput tracking, text and context based filtering.
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OpenTelemetry Moves Python and Swift Tracing API/SDKs to 1.0
OpenTelemetry released version 1.0 of the Python and Swift distributed tracing API and SDK. They both include OpenTelemetry API support, SDKs, exporters to common telemetry formats, and getting started materials. The Python release is considered stable whereas the Swift release is still in beta.
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.NET News Roundup - Week of March 15th, 2021
It's been a busy week for the .NET community, with the release of the new Azure SDK, multiple Akka.NET plugins, and the streaming of Include 2021, a digital event host by Microsoft focused on diversity and inclusion. InfoQ examined these and a number of smaller stories in the .NET ecosystem from the week of March 15th, 2021.
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OpenTelemetry Announces Roadmap for Metrics Specification
The OpenTelemetry project announced its roadmap for its metrics specification. The roadmap includes a stable metrics API/SDK, metrics data model and protocol, and compatibility with Prometheus.
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OpenTelemetry Specification Reaches 1.0 with Stability Guarantees and New Release Candidates
The OpenTelemetry specification has been promoted to v1.0.0. This milestone includes improved stability and backwards compatibility guarantees, as well as API and SDK release candidates available for a number of languages. With this release, both the tracing API and the tracing SDK are considered stable.
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AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry Available for Public Preview
Recently, AWS announced the public preview of the AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry, a secure, production-ready, AWS-supported distribution of the OpenTelemetry project. With the AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry, developers can instrument their applications in one go to send correlated metrics and traces to multiple monitoring solutions ranging from Amazon Cloudwatch to Datadog and Grafana.
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Q&A with New Relic Regarding Open Sourcing Agents and a Future of Open Instrumentation
InfoQ caught up with New Relic's principal software engineer, Ben Evans, director of software engineering, Sharr Creeden, and group VP of engineering, Greg Unrein regarding the open sourcing of New Relic's agents and the future of open instrumentation.
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Splunk Launches New Release of SignalFx APM
Splunk, a platform for searching, monitoring, and examining machine-generated big data, has launched a new release of application monitoring tool SignalFx Microservices APM™. The new release combines NoSample™ tracing, open standards based instrumentation and artificial intelligence (AI)-driven directed troubleshooting from SignalFx and Omnition into a single solution.
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Instana Performance Provider Adds vSphere Support
Microservice application performance management provider, Instana, has released new capabilities for monitoring the VMware vSphere Suite, as well as applications running on vSphere infrastructure. Instana correlates infrastructure and application performance metrics and the latest release includes the ability to discover, map and monitor components running on VMware’s vSphere suite.
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Security Predicted by Gartner to Improve in DevOps Teams
DevOps teams have improved software velocity by incorporating development, testing, and operations into a unified team. In the coming years, many teams are set to incorporate security testing as part of this process, rather then delegating verification to unpredictable gates of experts.
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CRI-O Infrastructure and Application Monitoring Now Supported by Instana
Kubernetes application performance management solution, Instana, has announced support for managing CRI-O Kubernetes run-time containers and the applications that run on that infrastructure.
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Instana Pipeline Feedback for Release Performance
Application performance management service provider Instana launched Pipeline Feedback for release performance tracking and analysis. Pipeline Feedback provides automatic tracking of application releases, feedback on release performance, and integration with Jenkins.