Grafana Labs·1yKubernetes Monitoring Helm chart 2.0: a simpler, more predictable experience
Version 2.0 of the Kubernetes Monitoring Helm chart improves ease of use and flexibility in collecting telemetry data from Kubernetes clusters. Key updates include user-focused feature design, multiple data destinations, built-in integrations for popular services, and compatibility with Fleet Management. Simplified migration from version 1.x is supported by a detailed guide and migration utility.
Go Developers·1yGolang + observability = backend applications that you'll love ❤️
Yokai is a simple, modular, and observable Go framework designed to help developers avoid boilerplate code in production-grade backend applications. It includes features such as logs, traces, metrics, health checks, and config management. The framework offers demo applications and tutorials to assist developers in getting started.
CNCF·1yWhat is observability 2.0?
Observability 2.0 is designed for modern, distributed systems like Kubernetes and microservices, addressing the limitations of traditional monitoring tools. It unifies telemetry data, uses AI for real-time anomaly detection, and links technical metrics to business outcomes. Organizations can achieve faster incident resolution, better system performance, and improved user satisfaction by adopting Observability 2.0 practices.
Grafana Labs·1yMetrics, logs, and literature: Inside The National Library of the Netherlands’ observability stack
The National Library of the Netherlands uses Grafana for their observability stack, ensuring seamless access to a vast collection of digital literature. The library's choice of Grafana over Splunk was driven by ease of use, cost reduction, and native Prometheus support. They deployed Grafana Mimir for metrics and Grafana Loki for logs, empowering developers with simplified infrastructure setup. Future plans include implementing Grafana Alerting, Grafana Tempo, and Grafana Faro to enhance performance monitoring.
OpenTelemetry·1yOpenTelemetry Go 2025 Goals
The OpenTelemetry Go team has outlined their goals for 2025, focusing on integrating new semantic conventions, enhancing SDK self-observability, stabilizing Go runtime metrics, and finalizing the Logs API and `otelhttp` instrumentation. These initiatives aim to improve data quality, observability, and developer experience within the OpenTelemetry ecosystem.
Laravel News·1yOpen Telemetry Package for Laravel
LaraOTel OpenTelemetry package for Laravel helps measure performance in jobs, services, database queries, and more. It uses watchers for tracking authentications, cache operations, database queries, job executions, redis activities, events, HTTP client requests, and logging. Custom spans can be created for specific performance measurement. The package supports Zipkin and Jaeger for visualization and requires PHP OpenTelemetry extension. Full instructions and source code are available on GitHub.
Grafana Labs·1yGrafana Tempo 2.7 release: new TraceQL metrics functions, operational improvements, and more!
Grafana Tempo 2.7 introduces enhancements including new TraceQL metrics functions and operational improvements aimed at optimizing performance and resource usage. Key updates include better query frontend handling, reduced ingester memory usage, and faster TraceQL query execution. Additionally, several breaking changes related to OpenTelemetry dependency, regular expression matcher, and gRPC compression settings are highlighted. The future update 'RF1 rearchitecture' promises further improvement.
Product Hunt·1yfixa - open-source testing and observability for voice agents
Fixa is an open-source platform designed to provide testing and observability for voice agents, helping developers ensure their voice applications are efficient and reliable. It offers tools and features specifically tailored to the needs of voice agent development, making it easier to detect issues and optimize performance.