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@svrnm.com
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🔭 OpenTelemetry 🔭
Adversarial Poetry as a Universal Single-Turn Jailbreak Mechanism in Large Language Models
arxiv.org/pdf/2511.15304
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"And if your OSS contributions do lead to your dream job, like they did for me, remember to balance the scales one last time. Pass on your knowledge to new contributors and especially to new tech writers. Pay it forward." Tiffany Hrabusa at
@writethedocs.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sqry...
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Tiffany Hrabusa - A beautiful arrangement: Gaining experience & giving back through open source docs
YouTube video by Write the Docs
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How this open source project broke Minecraft
YouTube video by GitHub
https://youtube.com/shorts/Busz5mhYa_s?si=BWES9H0HEzrJAvLA
3 days ago
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Causely
4 days ago
Dallas, you were awesome. 🤘 Thanks to everyone who came by the Causely booth at
@grafana.bsky.social
#ObservabilityCON
On the Road yesterday! Great convos, great energy, and, of course, great swag. 🦈
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OpenTelemetry
6 days ago
What makes OTel Unplugged different? No fixed talks — you set the agenda. ➕ Attendee-driven breakouts ➕ Maintainer & end-user discussions ➕ End-of-day OpenTelemetry roadmap session 📍 Sparks Meeting (Brussels) | 🗓️ Mon Feb 2, 2026 🎟️ Register:
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OTel Unplugged EU 2026
A community-driven unconference where you shape the topics and influence OpenTelemetry’s future.
https://buff.ly/LYKI9dl
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Causely
6 days ago
DevOps. SRE. Platform Engineering. Same goals, different disciplines, but the nuances matter. This post aims to clear things up, helping teams align on who owns what and how the pieces fit together 🧩
www.causely.ai/blog/sre-dev...
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The Cost of Confusing SRE, DevOps, and Platform Engineering
Confusing SRE, DevOps, and Platform Engineering may work at 20 engineers, but at 200 it creates chaos. Here’s why the distinctions matter and how to scale them effectively.
https://www.causely.ai/blog/sre-devops-and-platform-engineering
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Chris Aniszczyk
10 days ago
#kubecon
#cloudnativecon
job board is busy!
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natali
11 days ago
the cisco ospo reunion we all wanted
@auggie.dev
@svrnm.com
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OpenTelemetry
19 days ago
Last call: OpenTelemetry Community Awards nominations close soon! If someone helped you ship, scale, or learn this year, nominate them now:
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2025 OpenTelemetry Community Awards
OpenTelemetry is a community-driven project, fueled by a group of awesome humans who are actively revolutionizing the field of observability with their contributions. Whether it’s through code,…
https://buff.ly/0FuEGhV
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Causely
23 days ago
🎃 Happy Halloween from Causely 👻 In a world haunted by false positives and spurious alerts, one terrifying truth remains: Correlation is futile. Our favorite Shark-Of-9 knows it too: you can’t guess your way to reliability! Stay spooky. Stay causal.
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Causely
24 days ago
Calling all
#KubeCon
friends! We’re co-hosting a 🍻Happy Hour with
@clickhouse.com
+ Buf! Good drinks, great people, better reliability. RSVP →
luma.com/56t729bb
+ See how we integrate with ClickStack to find the why behind system slowdowns:
www.causely.ai/blog/causely...
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KubeCon Happy Hour in Atlanta · Luma
Join us for a casual evening of networking, dinner, and drinks with the KubeCon community! After a full day at KubeCon and co-located events like Observability…
https://luma.com/56t729bb
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OpenTelemetry
25 days ago
🗳️ The 2025 OpenTelemetry GC Election is underway! If you haven’t voted yet, there’s still time to help shape the future of the project. ✅ Check eligibility:
buff.ly/6xn7MYb
🗳️ Vote here:
buff.ly/tQUXYHt
Voting closes Oct 30, noon (UTC) — don’t miss your chance to have a say!
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Causely
27 days ago
1 high-stakes migration, 0 downtime. Learn how Quantum Metric validated every stage of a Google Kubernetes Engine Dataplane V2 cutover, all while running at 30k+ RPS.
#GKE
#Dataplane
#Kubernetes
#K8s
www.causely.ai/blog/quantum...
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Zero Downtime at 30,000 RPS: How Quantum Metric Rearchitected with Causely
During a high-risk migration, Causely gave Quantum Metric a new kind of clarity rooted in cause-and-effect across dynamic systems. This helped them improve how they think about managing complexity at ...
https://www.causely.ai/blog/quantum-metric-rearchitected-with-causely
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OpenTelemetry
26 days ago
🗳️ It’s time! Voting is open for the 2025 OpenTelemetry Governance Committee Election. Check your status here, if you’re an eligible voter:
buff.ly/6xn7MYb
Then cast your vote:
buff.ly/tQUXYHt
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TIL GitHub profile pages have become the new MySpace pages ... I need to rework mine :-O
about 1 month ago
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OpenTelemetry
about 1 month ago
🎤 OpenTelemetry Unplugged We’re bringing the community together the day after FOSDEM for an unconference: attendee-driven breakouts and a project roadmap session run with the OTel Governance Committee. 📍 Sparks Meeting, Brussels | 🗓️ Mon Feb 2, 2026 | ⏰ 09:00–19:00 🎟️ Register:
buff.ly/LYKI9dl
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OTel Unplugged EU 2026
A community-driven unconference where you shape the topics and influence OpenTelemetry’s future.
https://events.humanitix.com/otelunplugged-eu2026
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Dan Gomez Blanco
about 1 month ago
Want to recognise a contributor or say some nice words about someone that made your life easier, or that helped OpenTelemetry grow? Nominate them for the OpenTelemetry Community Awards! This could be anyone, inside or outside the OpenTelemetry project!
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Adriana Villela 🇨🇦 🇧🇷
about 1 month ago
If you're like me and can't keep track of all of the happenings in
#OpenTelemetry
, then we've got just the thing for YOU! Presenting our very first edition of "What's New in OTel?", featuring OTel maintainers
@svrnm.com
and
@marylia.dev
. Tune in live, and bring your questions! Details below!
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OpenTelemetry
about 1 month ago
📣 OTel Unplugged is headed to Brussels in February 2026! A full day of in-person conversation and collaboration! Unconference sessions only—no organized talks. We’ll shape the next chapter of the
#OpenTelemetry
roadmap. Details on registration and sponsorship in our latest blog.
buff.ly/vC9kqtZ
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OTel Unplugged EU at FOSDEM 2026
OpenTelemetry is coming to FOSDEM! When we put out our community survey, you requested more meetups and we have heard you! We’re happy to announce that we are bringing back OTel Unplugged, the…
https://opentelemetry.io/blog/2025/otel-unplugged-fosdem/
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Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF)
about 2 months ago
OpenTelemetry + Prometheus = instant visibility + faster fixes ⚡ For Severin Neumann, the best part of
#CloudNative
is the community that helps you grow 🌐 Thank you,
@svrnm.com
!
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OpenTelemetry
about 2 months ago
Get ready
#CloudNative
fans!
#KubeCon
North America is almost here! If you're wondering where to find all things
#OpenTelemetry
, we've got you covered. Bookmark our latest blog post so you don't miss a thing!
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Join us for OpenTelemetry Talks and Activities at KubeCon NA 2025
The OpenTelemetry project maintainers, members of the governance committee, and technical committee are thrilled to be at KubeCon NA in Atlanta from November 10 - 13, 2025. Register today to join us!…
https://buff.ly/RyHohL9
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OpenTelemetry
about 2 months ago
Join us in welcoming the newest members of the
#OpenTelemetry
Technical Committee! 🎉
buff.ly/9Ctgeit
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Announcing OpenTelemetry Technical Committee Election Results
The OpenTelemetry Technical Committee is delighted to announce two new elected members! Please join us in congratulating David Ashpole and Josh MacDonald! Both David and Josh are long-time…
https://opentelemetry.io/blog/2025/tc-election-results/
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OpenTelemetry
about 2 months ago
Care about the governance of
#OpenTelemetry
? Want to have a say in the future of the project? Make your voice heard in the upcoming GC election! If eligible, make sure you're on the voter roll. Nominate yourself or someone else as a candidate! Learn more in the
#OTel
blog post.
buff.ly/hkViInd
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Announcing the 2025 OpenTelemetry Governance Committee Election
The OpenTelemetry project is excited to announce the 2025 OpenTelemetry Governance Committee (GC) election. Nominations are due by 17 October 2025 23:59 UTC. The list of eligible candidates will be…
https://opentelemetry.io/blog/2025/gc-elections/
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From the OpenTelemetry community on Reddit
Explore this post and more from the OpenTelemetry community
https://www.reddit.com/r/OpenTelemetry/comments/1nk8xbh/what_do_you_want_ropentelemetry_to_become/
2 months ago
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OpenTelemetry
2 months ago
🚀 Vești bune pentru comunitatea din România! Documentația OpenTelemetry are acum o pagină de prezentare disponibilă în limba română 🇷🇴 Construim acest proiect împreună și ne-ar bucura să avem alături mai mulți contribuitori vorbitori de română.
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OpenTelemetry
Telemetrie de înaltă calitate, omniprezentă și portabilă pentru a permite o observabilitate eficientă
https://buff.ly/D00GtwO
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2 months ago
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Michael Hausenblas
3 months ago
Check out this week's o11y newsletter with great OpenTelemetry practices and recommendations:
o11y.news/2025-09-08/
#observability
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Causely
3 months ago
🪄 Automatic instrumentation isn’t magic, it’s code. Code that comes with trade-offs you must understand. You can’t afford to treat it like a black box. This blog unpacks 5 techniques for automatic instrumentation with lab examples you can try.
www.causely.ai/blog/demysti...
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Demystifying Automatic Instrumentation: How the Magic Actually Works
Most developers use automatic instrumentation without knowing how it actually works. This post breaks down the key techniques behind it—not to build your own, but to understand what’s really happening...
https://www.causely.ai/blog/demystifying-automatic-instrumentation
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OpenTelemetry
4 months ago
Ми раді повідомити, що наш вебсайт тепер доступний українською! Це полегшить початок роботи для українських розробників! We are happy to announce that our website is now available in Ukrainian! This will make it easier for Ukrainian developers to get started!
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Високоякісна, повсюдна та переносна телеметрія для забезпечення ефективної спостережуваності
https://buff.ly/EO1B6ob
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Are you curious how different techniques for automatic instrumentation work? I wrote a blog post and created a lab that give an overview over the most common mechanisms: Repo:
github.com/causely-oss/...
Blog:
www.causely.ai/blog/demysti...
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GitHub - causely-oss/automatic-instrumentation-lab: This repository contains a lab to explore different techniques of automatic instrumentation.
This repository contains a lab to explore different techniques of automatic instrumentation. - causely-oss/automatic-instrumentation-lab
https://github.com/causely-oss/automatic-instrumentation-lab
4 months ago
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Causely
4 months ago
When distributed systems fail, it’s often not due to lack of data — it’s lack of understanding. Watch this dzone webinar to learn how causal reasoning is helping teams solve reliability issues at the source.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuro...
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Rethinking Reliability for Distributed Systems
YouTube video by Causely
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuroPvbvDk8
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Causely
4 months ago
Production failures aren’t noise problems. They’re signal problems. 📢⚠️ Causely cofounder Endre Sara shares why the hardest part of incident response is knowing what to pay attention to — and how AI can help.
causely.ai/blog/the-sig...
#DevOps
#SRE
#Observability
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The Signal in the Storm: Why Chasing More Data Misses the Point
More telemetry doesn’t guarantee more understanding. In many cases, it gives you the illusion of control while silently eroding your ability to reason about the system.
https://causely.ai/blog/the-signal-in-the-storm
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OpenTelemetry
5 months ago
Earlier this year, we heard from
#OpenTelemetry
contributors in our Contributor Experience Survey. Now we're ready to release the results! Thank you to all the contributors who took time to complete the survey!
buff.ly/jrSL5lf
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OpenTelemetry
6 months ago
এখন থেকে
#OpenTelemetry
এর হোমপেজ বাংলায়ও উপলব্ধ! বাংলাভাষী ডেভেলপারদের জন্য অবজারভেবিলিটি শেখা এখন আরও বেশি সহজ। এখানে দেখুন:
opentelemetry.io/bn
--- We’re excited to share that our website is now available in Bengali! This makes it easier for Bengali-speaking developers to get started!
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ইফেক্টিভ অবজারভেবিলিটির জন্য উচ্চ-মানের, সর্বজনীন ও পোর্টেবল টেলিমেট্রি প্রদান
https://opentelemetry.io/bn
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OpenTelemetry
9 months ago
Last week before our
#OpenTelemetry
#Contributor
Survey closes. Take it and help us enhance the contributor experience. We appreciate your time and feedback!
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The OpenTelemetry Contributor Experience Survey is open!
TL;DR Take our OpenTelemetry Contributor Survey and help us enhance the contributor experience. We appreciate your time and feedback! Since its founding, OpenTelemetry has had thousands of…
https://buff.ly/MXTzSdD
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OpenTelemetry
9 months ago
We’re thrilled to announce that
#OpenTelemetry
Demo 2.0 is here!
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Announcing the OpenTelemetry Demo 2.0
We’re thrilled to announce that OpenTelemetry Demo 2.0 is here! We’ve been busy behind the scenes, polishing up the demo to make it more complete, robust, and user-friendly. We believe these exciting…
https://buff.ly/4hTCv7x
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OpenTelemetry
9 months ago
Take our
#OpenTelemetry
#Contributor
Survey and help us enhance the contributor experience. We appreciate your time and feedback!
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TL;DR Take our OpenTelemetry Contributor Survey and help us enhance the contributor experience. We appreciate your time and feedback! Since its founding, OpenTelemetry has had thousands of…
https://buff.ly/41jS6aw
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Luca Casonato 🏳️🌈
9 months ago
OpenTelemetry in Deno! Please try it out an let us know what you think. I think it's a game changer. Docs:
docs.deno.com/runtime/fund...
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What's your experience with GitHub actions as an open source maintainer? What are best practices you can share? I will be speaking about this at the Maintainer Summit, and while I have my own learnings, I am curious to hear from others as well!
maintainersummiteu2025.sched.com/event/1uSND/
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Maintainer Summit Europe 2025: Automate Maintainer Tasks With GitHub Ac...
View more about this event at Maintainer Summit Europe 2025
https://maintainersummiteu2025.sched.com/event/1uSND/
9 months ago
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OpenTelemetry
10 months ago
Are you a
#mainframe
user? Then take our
#OpenTelemetry
on Mainframe priorities survey to let us know, which activities we should focus on!
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OpenTelemetry on Mainframe Priorities Survey
The OpenTelemetry project and The Open Mainframe Project established the SIG “OpenTelemetry on Mainframe” at the beginning of 2024. Our focus is to enable OpenTelemetry on the mainframe for improved…
https://buff.ly/3PZdpaW
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OpenTelemetry
10 months ago
New blog post:
#Kubernetes
annotation-based discovery for the
#OpenTelemetry
Collector
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Kubernetes annotation-based discovery for the OpenTelemetry Collector
In the world of containers and Kubernetes, observability is crucial. Users need to know the status of their workloads at any given time. In other words, they need observability into moving objects.…
https://buff.ly/3PQa262
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OpenTelemetry
10 months ago
Alibaba, Datadog, and Quesma Join Forces on Go Compile-Time Instrumentation, read the full announcement:
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Alibaba, Datadog, and Quesma Join Forces on Go Compile-Time Instrumentation
Standards are only useful if they’re widely adopted, and adoption is only effective if the available tooling facilitates it. I imagine SI units would not have been too popular when they were…
https://buff.ly/4gfHa2b
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If you want to add
#OpenTelemetry
to the services in an existing docker-compose.yml you can use a docker-compose.override.yml to do so without touching your existing file:
gist.github.com/svrnm/d9d6be...
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Docker compose override for OpenTelemetry zero-code instrumentation
Docker compose override for OpenTelemetry zero-code instrumentation - README.md
https://gist.github.com/svrnm/d9d6bef850839aa629c2907ff10be9a2
11 months ago
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OpenTelemetry
11 months ago
We’re back with our third edition of Humans of
#OpenTelemetry
, this time from
#KubeCon
NA in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA:
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The Humans of OpenTelemetry - KubeCon NA 2024
We’re back with our third edition of Humans of OpenTelemetry, this time from KubeCon NA in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA. Once again, Reese Lee and I interviewed OpenTelemetry contributors and end users…
https://buff.ly/49QOjo4
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11 months ago
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I am grateful for
#docsy
: we use it for the
#OpenTelemetry
Website & Documentation. A lot of the release highlights this year have been directly usable for us! Check out the "Docsy 2024 Review" written by the amazing Patrice Chalin for Docsy Steering Committee
www.docsy.dev/blog/2024/ye...
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Docsy 2024 Review: Adoptions and Enhancements
Celebrating Docsy's 2024 growth in features and adoption, including a 57% usage increase, new features like dark mode, and improved internationalization support.
https://www.docsy.dev/blog/2024/year-in-review/
11 months ago
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Hear, hear!
youtu.be/atcqMWqB3hw?...
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https://youtu.be/atcqMWqB3hw?si=lS0APbX6XjHW3aVB
12 months ago
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OpenTelemetry
12 months ago
New on our blog: Collecting
#OpenTelemetry-compliant
#Java
logs from files
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Collecting OpenTelemetry-compliant Java logs from files
If you want to get logs from your Java application ingested into an OpenTelemetry-compatible logs backend, the easiest and recommended way is using an OpenTelemetry protocol (OTLP) exporter. However,…
https://buff.ly/3ZIZITd
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OpenTelemetry
12 months ago
New on our blog:
#OpenTelemetry
for Generative AI
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OpenTelemetry for Generative AI
As organizations increasingly adopt Large Language Models (LLMs) and other generative AI technologies, ensuring reliable performance, efficiency, and safety is essential to meet user expectations,…
https://buff.ly/49nmbZc
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