A helpful directory of ControlTheory and OpenTelemetry (OTel) resources.
Gonzo
- Gonzo Walkthrough
- Gonzo with Kubernetes
- Gonzo with CloudWatch
- Gonzo with Loki
- Gonzo with Vercel
- Gonzo Observability Driven Development (Docker, Node, OTel)
OpenTelemetry
- What is OpenTelemetry? (video | newsletter)
OTel Collector
Icons
Optimization
- Slides from “Taming Metric Cardinality – Practical Cost Reduction with the OpenTelemetry Collector” [Open Observability Summit + OTel Community Day, June 26 in Denver]
- 3 ways to tame your telemetry using the OTel collector
- Sending telemetry data to, and rehydrating from AWS S3 | Video
- Tail Sampling Guide | Video
- Filter Processor – tackling Metric Cardinality
- Transform and Enrich Telemetry with the Transform Processor
Configuration and Deployment
Security
Telemetry Generation / Testing
- Quick guide to OTelgen
- Quick guide to Telemetrygen
- Validate telemetry using the Remote Tap Processor – how to | Video
Datadog Integration
Table of Contents
Where Your OTel Pipeline Loses Signal
Sampling, filtering, and transforming all decide in advance what to drop. Where each one loses signal, what it costs, and how to cut the bill without losing the unknowns.
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