πŸ‘‡ Learn why #Spotify Engineering relied on #VictoriaMetrics for extreme #Scale observability in this case study.
https://bit.ly/49e5P6w

#Prometheus #OpenTelemetry #Grafana #Engineering #OTel

Spotify’s performance & control across large monitoring environments with VictoriaMetrics

Spotify needed to replace its legacy in-house time series database to overcome stability and performance limitations, which would bring about query delays and timeouts. The Spotify observability team chose VictoriaMetrics to support efficient metric ingestion, querying, and alerting at scale.

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New post from my blog...

In case you missed it earlier...

Stir Trek 2026 - When Logs Tell the Whole Story
https://barretblake.dev/posts/conferences/2026/05/stir-trek-2026/ #stirtrek #opentelemetry #otel

βš”οΈ FastAPI Distributed Tracing: The Complete OpenTelemetry Guide (2026)

Still debugging latency by guessing which microservice is slow, or is your vendor-locked tracing just adding to the noise?

Read more: https://logicandlegacy.blogspot.com/2026/05/fastapi-distributed-tracing-complete.html?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=dharma_engine

#otel #tracing #observability

FastAPI Distributed Tracing: The Complete OpenTelemetry Guide (2026)

Master distributed tracing in microservices. Learn how OpenTelemetry (OTel), OTLP, and Spans solve the microservice murder mystery in FastAPI

New post from my blog...

Stir Trek 2026 - When Logs Tell the Whole Story
https://barretblake.dev/posts/conferences/2026/05/stir-trek-2026/ #stirtrek #opentelemetry #otel

🏨 #Airbnb now has a 100M samples/sec pipeline powered by #vmagent + #OpenTelemetry
πŸͺœ VictoriaMetrics v1.142.0 provides critical fixes: #OTEL ingestion + query bugs. Please upgrade as soon as possible
πŸͺ΅ VictoriaLogs v1.50 adds Splunk HEC, Datadog native paths, file log collection
πŸ†”Multiple improvements in VictoriaLogs #LogsQL: multi-field search, stddev(), global filters, CSV exports.
Learn more in our latest article πŸ‘‡
https://bit.ly/4ue33GM

#Monitoring #logs

VictoriaMetrics April 2026 Ecosystem Updates

VictoriaMetrics April 2026 release round‑up: heads up about critical VictoriaMetrics bugfixes in v1.141.0–v1.142.0, and explore new VictoriaLogs features including Splunk ingestion and advanced LogsQL tooling.

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The May #syslog_ng newsletter is now available on-line:

- Streaming syslog-ng data to your lakehouse using #OTEL

- Central log collection - more than just #compliance

- Compiling syslog-ng on an old #Mac

Read more at:

https://www.syslog-ng.com/community/b/blog/posts/the-syslog-ng-insider-2026-05-otel-central-log-collection-old-mac

πŸš€ Calling all end users! We're excited to announce the launch of #OTel blueprints and reference implementations! πŸš€

With guidance from experts, you can build production-ready telemetry pipelines that span multiple #OpenTelemetry components.

Learn more and contribute! πŸ‘‡οΈ

https://opentelemetry.io/blog/2026/blueprints-intro/

What's new in Microsoft Foundry | April 2026 | Microsoft Foundry Blog

Foundry Local hits GA, GPT-5.5 lands with Tier 5/6 quota, plus Agent Framework tracing, CodeAct on Hyperlight, continuous evals, and new SDK releases.

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flow-php/telemetry (#PHP implementation of #OTEL) faced an architectural issue tied to the php nature (single thread/process).

https://github.com/flow-php/flow/issues/2348 explains how I'm tackling it, without making Exporters blocking

[Discussion]: Failover Mechanism for Telemetry Β· Issue #2348 Β· flow-php/flow

So here is what's happening and how it works right now How it Works Right now we have 2 transports: curl (uses json serializer) grpc (uses protobuf serializer) Transport has pretty much 2 important...

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My change to add Grafana Alloy fmt and validate commands to none-ls has been merged into none-ls-extras! You can now easily set up formatting and validation of alloy files in Neovim by configuring the appropriate none-ls sources.

https://github.com/nvimtools/none-ls-extras.nvim/pull/45

#grafana #otel #neovim

builtins/alloy: add fmt and validate sources by britter Β· Pull Request #45 Β· nvimtools/none-ls-extras.nvim

Adds two builtins for Grafana Alloy configuration files (.alloy): formatting.alloy β€” runs alloy fmt reading from stdin to format config files diagnostics.alloy β€” runs alloy validate on save and pa...

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