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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
Picture of a dinosaur tail being sampled in many pieces

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
Sending telemetry like coal to be stored

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