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What Is OpAMP in OpenTelemetry?

Most teams start with OpenTelemetry Collectors manually configured per environment. But as scale increases, and teams start to use the collector as more than a dat...

May 31, 2025
By Jon Reeve
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Set the Right Service Tag When Sending OpenTelemetry Logs to Datadog

When sending logs from Kubernetes to Datadog using the OpenTelemetry (OTel) Collector, one critical detail often gets overlooked: correctly populating the service ...

May 29, 2025
By Jon Reeve
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Using the OpenTelemetry Authenticator Extension

Authentication is a critical piece of any telemetry pipeline — whether you're receiving data from trusted agents or exporting telemetry to third-party services. Th...

May 20, 2025
By Jon Reeve
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What Is the OpenTelemetry Transform Processor?

The OpenTelemetry Transform Processor is a powerful way to gain control over your telemetry data. Whether you're filtering noisy spans, sanitizing logs, or tagging...

May 20, 2025
By Jon Reeve
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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