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AWS Distributed Tracing Service X-Ray Transitions to OpenTelemetry
AWS recently announced that AWS X-Ray is transitioning to OpenTelemetry as its primary instrumentation standard for application tracing, with the AWS X-Ray SDKs and Daemon moving to maintenance mode.
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Google Cloud Observability Adopts OpenTelemetry Protocol for Native Trace Ingestion
Google Cloud has announced native support for the OpenTelemetry Protocol (OTLP) in its Cloud Trace service, marking a significant step toward vendor-neutral observability infrastructure. The new capability allows developers to send trace data directly using OTLP through the telemetry.googleapis.com endpoint, eliminating the need for vendor-specific exporters and custom data transformations.
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How LinkedIn Built Enterprise Multi-Agent AI on Existing Messaging Infrastructure
LinkedIn extended its generative AI application platform to support multi-agent systems by repurposing its existing messaging infrastructure as an orchestration layer. This allowed the company to scale AI agents without building new coordination technology from scratch and achieve global availability while supporting complex multi-step workflows through agent coordination.
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Report Shows OpenTelemetry’s Impact on Go Performance
A new benchmark study from observability platform Coroot has shed light on the performance costs of implementing OpenTelemetry in high-throughput Go applications. The findings show that while OpenTelemetry delivers valuable trace-level insights, it introduces notable overhead, increasing CPU usage by approximately 35% and increasing network traffic and latency under load.
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MicroProfile 7.1 Delivers Updates to Their Telemetry and Open API Specifications
Ten months after the release of MicroProfile 7.0, the MicroProfile Working Group has released version 7.1 of MicroProfile to the Java community. This new release features continued alignment with Jakarta EE 10 and updates to two community-developed core APIs.
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Microsoft Azure Enhances Observability with OpenTelemetry Support for Logic Apps and Functions
Microsoft has expanded OpenTelemetry support in Azure Logic Apps and Functions, enhancing observability and interoperability across platforms. This open-source framework enables seamless data generation and correlation, enhancing diagnostics beyond standard telemetry. With streamlined configuration and integration, Azure's offerings aim for standardized observability across cloud services.
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Travel Giant Skyscanner Overhauls Observability, Cuts Telemetry Costs by 90%
The COVID-19 pandemic gave the engineering teams at travel search giant Skyscanner an opportunity to introspectively examine their observability stack. Skyscanner has written about how it has overhauled its approach to technical observability with a system that improves reliability for engineers and travellers alike.
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Grafana 12 Launches with Observability as Code and Dynamic Dashboard Features
Grafana Labs have launched Grafana 12, bringing significant updates to its visualisation and dashboarding platform. Several new key features are now generally available, including Git Sync, dynamic dashboards, and improvements to Drilldown which gives code-free point-and-click insights into data, and a Cloud Migration assistant.
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Stripe Rearchitects Its Observability Platform with Managed Prometheus and Grafana on AWS
Stripe replaced its observability platform, which used a third-party vendor solution, with a new architecture utilizing managed services on AWS. The company made the move due to scalability limits, reliability issues, and increasing costs while transitioning to microservices. The migration involved dual-writing metrics, translating assets, validation, and user training.
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Cloudflare Overhauls Logging Pipeline with OpenTelemetry
Internet infrastructure and security company Cloudflare has documented how it significantly upgraded its logging pipeline by moving from syslog-ng to OpenTelemetry Collector.
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OpenTelemetry Adopts Continuous Profiling; Elastic Donates Their Agent
OpenTelemetry has announced that it has incorporated continuous profiling as a core telemetry signal, and Elastic has donated its continuous profiling agent to the OpenTelemetry project.
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Enhance Cloud-Based Monitoring with Azure Monitor Pipeline
Azure Monitor is Microsoft's cloud monitoring service for gathering, visualizing, and analyzing telemetry data from applications, infrastructure, and networks. The company recently added a data collection capability in preview with the edge pipeline, which enables the collection and routing of telemetry data before it's sent to the cloud.
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Open Source Elastic's OpenTelemetry SDK for .NET
Elastic announced the alpha release of the Elastic distribution of the OpenTelemetry SDK for .NET. This distribution preconfigures the collection of tracing, metrics and logs. Additionally, the distribution ensures that the OTLP exporter is enabled by default. The project is open-sourced.
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Elastic Enhances OpenTelemetry with Profiling Agent, Sharing System Health Insights to the Community
Elastic has recently declared its plan to donate its continuous profiling agent to the OpenTelemetry(OTel) project. This agent is an always-on, continuous profiling solution that eliminates the need for runtime or bytecode instrumentation, recompilation, on-host debug symbols or restarting services.
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Collecting Git Performance Data Using trace2receiver and OpenTelemetry
GitHub recently introduced trace2receiver, an open-source tool that integrates with OpenTelemetry to analyze Git performance data. This tool allows users to identify performance issues, detect early signs of trouble, and highlight areas where Git itself can be enhanced.