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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 Supports Powertools for .NET to Simplify Observability
AWS recently announced that the open-source library Lambda Powertools now supports .NET. The developer library helps implement observability when running Lambda functions based on .NET 6 or above, reducing the amount of custom code.
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Influxdata Releases Its New Database Engine in InfluxDB Cloud
InfluxData releases into general availability the new version of its database engine called Influx IOx. It is now available to be used in InfluxDB Cloud.
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Service Mesh Kuma Improves Policy Handling and Debugging Experience
Kuma, a service mesh technology, released version 2.1 with improved policies and an updated UI. The improved policies build upon the 2.0 release and move the remaining policies over to the new targetRef system. The targetRef system provides an improved matching system for defining policies.
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Azure Announces Native New Relic Service for Full-Stack Observability
Azure recently announced a native New Relic service for full-stack observability. The performance monitoring service allows monitoring and troubleshooting of cloud applications in real-time, providing metrics, traces, and logs.
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Grafana Tempo Introduces New Query Language and Support for Apache Parquet
Grafana has released Grafana Tempo 2.0 which introduces the new TraceQL query language and support for the Apache Parquet format. Grafana Tempo is an open-source tracing backend that works with object storage. The new TraceQL query language works with the Apache Parquet format to provide improved search times and queries aligned to traces.
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Google Releases Kubernetes GitOps Observability Dashboard
Google Cloud introduced Config Management Dashboard that allows the Platform Administrator or Operator to have a real-time picture of configuration syncs and failures across multiple Kubernetes clusters.
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How Lyft Detects Android Memory Leaks in Production
While modern tooling for Android and iOS enable memory leak detection using local builds, this is not enough to guarantee an app shows correct memory behavior in production, where it runs on a wide range of devices in diverse conditions. For this reason, Lyft engineers combine A/B testing and memory observability to detect which features leak memory.
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Grafana Adds Outlier Detection to Its Machine Learning Toolkit
Grafana has released outlier detection as part of their Grafana Machine Learning toolkit. Outlier detection can be used to monitor a group of similar things and be alerted when some of them start to behave differently than the norm.
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Prometheus Adds Long Term Support Model and Improved Remote Write Mode
Prometheus, the open-source monitoring tool, has added a number of new features including a reduced functionality remote write mode. Additional improvements include a new HTTP service discovery mechanism, native histogram support, additional integrations for Alertmanager, and a new long-term support model.
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Elastic 8.6 Released with Improvements to Observability, Security, and Search
Elastic has released Elastic 8.6 with improvements across the entire Elastic Search Platform including Elastic Enterprise Search, Elastic Observability, Elastic Security, and Kibana. The release includes additional connector clients, better observability of dependencies, improvements to alerts generated from prebuilt security rules, and temporary data views.
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Grafana Releases New Frontend Observability SDK and Backend Profiling Database
Grafana has announced two new additions to its suite of observability and monitoring tooling. Grafana Faro is an open-source web SDK for real user monitoring (RUM) of browser frontend applications. Grafana Phlare is an open-source backend database for storing and querying profiling data. A new flame graph panel is available to facilitate visualizing and interpreting the collected profile data.
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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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Comprehensive Kubernetes Telemetry with AWS Observability Accelerator
AWS recently created a new template within the AWS Observability Accelerator project that provides an integrated telemetry solution for Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) workloads.