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Posts about OpenTelemetry, observability, and building Telflo.
Turn the spans you already emit into RED metrics with the spanmetrics connector, and avoid the one mistake that quietly multiplies your time series into a five-figure metrics bill.
Open Telemetry Fleet Management
The cheapest place to cut your observability bill is the Collector, not the backend. A practical guide to dropping noise with OpenTelemetry, then flipping to full fidelity when an incident hits.
The agent + gateway collector pattern for Kubernetes. Every receiver, processor, and pipeline explained, with two ready templates.
OpenTelemetry deep dives, collector config patterns, and what's new in Telflo. Starting with a clean OTLP-to-multiple-backends setup.