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Posts about OpenTelemetry, observability, and building Telflo.

Why We Built Flows

Writing the collector config is still the hardest part of adopting OpenTelemetry. Flows is our curated library of prebuilt, validated collector pipelines: about a dozen so far, one per use case, with more on the way.

September 7, 2026·4 min read

Why Observability Keeps Ending Up on ClickHouse

Netflix, OpenAI, Anthropic, and Uber all store their telemetry in the same database, and so does nearly every observability product launched in the last five years. The reasons are mechanical. Here's how ClickHouse actually works, what it does to the bill, and when it's still the wrong call.

August 11, 2026·7 min read

Span Metrics Without the Cardinality Explosion

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.

June 25, 2026·10 min read

Open Telemetry Fleet Management or "The Art of Managing Chaos"

Open Telemetry Fleet Management

June 6, 2026·7 min read

Drop it at the edge: cutting your observability bill with OpenTelemetry

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.

June 1, 2026·8 min read

Monitoring Kubernetes with the OpenTelemetry Collector

The agent + gateway collector pattern for Kubernetes. Every receiver, processor, and pipeline explained, with two ready templates.

May 2, 2026·11 min read

Welcome to the Telflo blog

OpenTelemetry deep dives, collector config patterns, and what's new in Telflo. Starting with a clean OTLP-to-multiple-backends setup.

April 29, 2026·3 min read