Exponential Histograms
Monday, May 22, 2023 in 2023
Previously, in Why Histograms? and Histograms vs Summaries, I went over the basics of histograms and summaries, explaining the tradeoffs, benefits, and limitations of each. Because they’re easy to understand and demonstrate, those posts focused …
Histograms vs Summaries
Monday, May 15, 2023 in 2023
In many ways, histograms and summaries appear quite similar. They both roll up many data points into a data structure for efficient processing, transmission, and storage. They can also both be used to track arbitrary quantiles such as the median or …
OpenTelemetry End-User Discussions Summary for April 2023
Thursday, May 11, 2023 in 2023
For the month of April 2023, the OpenTelemetry end-user group meet took place for users in the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region. Due to KubeCon EU, the AMER and EMEA sessions did not take place; however, we will have meetings for all 3 regions again in …
Why Histograms?
Monday, May 08, 2023 in 2023
A histogram is a multi-value counter that summarizes the distribution of data points. For example, a histogram may have 3 counters which count the occurrences of negative, positive, and zero values respectively. Given a series of numbers, 3, -9, 7, …
Sunsetting OpenCensus
Monday, May 01, 2023 in 2023
In 2019, we announced that OpenTracing and OpenCensus would be merging to form the OpenTelemetry project. From the start, we considered OpenTelemetry to be the next major version of both OpenTracing and OpenCensus. We are excited to announce that …
OpenTelemetry in Focus, April 2023
Monday, May 01, 2023 in 2023
Welcome to this month’s edition of OpenTelemetry in Focus! It’s been another busy month in the OpenTelemetry community, with some big announcements and new releases from our core repositories. I’ll also be sharing some highlights from …
The OpenTelemetry Demo Turns 1(.4)
Friday, April 21, 2023 in 2023
It’s hard to believe as we prepare our 1.4.0 release but the OpenTelemetry demo is turning 1 year old and it’s been 6 months since we declared general availability with our 1.0.0 release. Project Milestones The demo has achieved …
Announcing the Elastic Common Schema (ECS) and OpenTelemetry Semantic Convention Convergence
Monday, April 17, 2023 in 2023
Today, we’re very excited to make a joint announcement with Elastic about the future of Elastic Common Schema (ECS) and the OpenTelemetry Semantic Conventions. The goal is to achieve convergence of ECS and OTel Semantic Conventions into a …
Join us for OpenTelemetry Talks and Activities at KubeCon EU 2023
Monday, April 03, 2023 in 2023
The OpenTelemetry project maintainers, members of the governance committee, and technical committee are excited to be at KubeCon EU in Amsterdam from April 18 - 21, 2023! Read on to learn about all the things related OpenTelemetry during KubeCon. …
OpenTelemetry in Focus, March 2023
Friday, March 31, 2023 in 2023
Welcome to this month’s edition of OpenTelemetry in Focus! It’s been another busy month in the OpenTelemetry community, with some big announcements and new releases from our core repositories. I’ve also put together an overview of some …