OpenTelemetry in production: the open-source stack you still have to operate
Alloy, VictoriaMetrics, Tempo, Loki, and Grafana give a lot of control. They also demand capacity planning, rules, storage, and real operations.
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OpenTelemetry: 400,000 databases, cardinality, and other telemetry traps
A dimension that is useful in a trace can become a disaster in a metric. Field notes on cardinality, PII, and sampling.
Read →OpenTelemetry on 200 services: cover fast without rewriting fifteen years of code
On a brownfield application, the challenge was not perfect instrumentation service by service, but giving teams a shared framework they could apply quickly.
Read →A public Flagger lab: Gateway API, not make magic
I’m publishing a Kind workshop (Cilium, Envoy Gateway, Flagger) where attendees patch YAML to see who actually decides traffic.
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