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How to Use telemetrygen to feed Telemetry to the OTel Collector

If you’re building or validating an OpenTelemetry (OTel) Collector pipeline, there’s one thing you’ll need before anything else: telemetry. But getting access to r...

May 16, 2025
By Jon Reeve
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otelgen with Docker – Simulate Telemetry for the OTel Collector

When you're first getting started with the OpenTelemetry Collector (or "OTel collector"), one of the biggest challenges is simply testing and validating your confi...

May 12, 2025
By Jon Reeve

Control High Metric Cardinality with the OTel Collector Filter Processor

“Cardinality” is one of those words you come across in the observability and monitoring space that seems to be bandied about a lot these days. Basically a fancy wo...

April 28, 2025
By Jon Reeve

Integrate the OTel Collector with the DataDog Agent

In this blog, we’ll review step-by-step how to receive metrics, traces and logs from an existing DataDog agent using various methods. This can be a less disruptive...

April 3, 2025
By Jon Reeve
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Tail Sampling with the OTel Collector

In our conversations with customers, one thing has become clear – that distributed traces are an extremely (and perhaps the most) powerful signal for both de...

January 23, 2025
By Jon Reeve
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How to Validate & Optimize Telemetry with the OpenTelemetry Remote Tap Processor

As more OpenTelemetry (OTel) instrumentation is being deployed across our applications and infrastructure, we need ways of understanding the actual payloads of the...

December 16, 2024
By Jon Reeve