Simplify OpenTelemetry Pipelines with Headers Setter
In telemetry jargon, a pipeline is a directed acyclic graph (DAG) of nodes that carry emitted signals from an application to a backend. In an...
OpenTelemetry For Humans
Who is software for? It’s an interesting question, because there’s an obvious answer. It’s for the users, right? If your job is to write software,...
Rescue Struggling Pods from Scratch
Containers are an amazing technology. They provide huge benefits and create useful constraints for distributing software. Golang-based software doesn’t need a container in the same...
OpenTelemetry Gotchas: Phantom Spans
At work, we use OpenTelemetry extensively to trace execution of our Haskell codebase. We struggled for several months with a mysterious tracing issue in our...
Deploying the OpenTelemetry Collector to Kubernetes with Helm
The OpenTelemetry Collector is a useful application to have in your stack. However, deploying it has always felt a little time consuming: working out how...
Infinite Retention with OpenTelemetry and Honeycomb
Honeycomb is massively powerful at delivering detailed answers from the last several weeks of system telemetry within seconds. It keeps you in the flow state...
Automatic Instrumentation for OpenTelemetry Go
The OpenTelemetry Go project now supports automatic instrumentation via eBPF! This is a big milestone for the project and makes it significantly easier to generate...
Observing Core Web Vitals with OpenTelemetry
Each CWV measures a specific part of the end user experience. CWV scores can help identify gaps in web page performance. Additionally, Google uses CWV...
How to Trial Honeycomb and OpenTelemetry
Insightful proof-of-concepts with a tool can be difficult to undertake due to the demands on valuable resources: time, energy, and people. With a task as...
Collecting Kubernetes Data Using OpenTelemetry
Running a Kubernetes cluster isn’t easy. With all the benefits come complexities and unknowns. In order to truly understand your Kubernetes cluster and all the...
What Is a Telemetry Pipeline?
In a simple deployment, an application will emit spans, metrics, and logs which will be sent to api.honeycomb.io and show up in charts. This works...
Errors Got You Down? Honeycomb and OpenTelemetry are Here to Help
It’s 5:00 pm on a Friday. You’re wrapping up work, ready to head into the weekend, when one of your high-value customers Slacks you that...
OpenTelemetry Roundup for Kubecon EU
We’re in Amsterdam for the week of Kubecon EU. Come by our booth to learn more about how you can gain complete observability into your...
Does OpenTelemetry in .NET Cause Performance Degradation?
Contrary to Betteridge’s Law of Tabloid Headlines, the answer to the question, "does OpenTelemetry in .NET cause performance degradation?" is yes, but context is important. I...
OpenTelemetry 2022 Holiday Goodie Bag
We here at Honeycomb really like OpenTelemetry and goodie bags, so we have a nice little OpenTelemetry-flavored holiday goodie bag to share with you before...