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OpenTelemetry 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
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Sending Telemetry to (& rehydrating from) AWS S3 with the OTel Collector

Introduction Due to the high cost of ingesting/storing/indexing telemetry associated with many observability solution providers, we’ve noticed a trend across custo...

December 9, 2024
By Jon Reeve
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A Guide to the OpenTelemetry Collector

The OpenTelemetry Collector is a fundamental component of the OpenTelemetry architecture but can be a little complicated to sort through, especially when you add i...

November 8, 2024
By Bob Quillin

OpenTelemetry DataDog Receiver How To

In the blog, we’ll explore the OpenTelemetry DataDog Receiver kindly donated to the community by Grafana. We’ll review why you might want to convert your DataDog M...

November 8, 2024
By Jon Reeve

Out of Control – 3 Ways To Tame Your Telemetry Using The OTel Collector

In this blog, we’ll look at some example configurations that can be used to control telemetry flow in a standard OpenTelemetry (OTel) collector. Three scenarios wi...

November 8, 2024
By Jon Reeve