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

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.
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
βοΈ 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?
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
π¨ #Airbnb now has a 100M samples/sec pipeline powered by #vmagent + #OpenTelemetry
πͺ VictoriaMetrics v1.142.0 provides critical fixes: #OTEL ingestion + query bugs. Please upgrade as soon as possible
πͺ΅ VictoriaLogs v1.50 adds Splunk HEC, Datadog native paths, file log collection
πMultiple improvements in VictoriaLogs #LogsQL: multi-field search, stddev(), global filters, CSV exports.
Learn more in our latest article π
https://bit.ly/4ue33GM
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:
π Calling all end users! We're excited to announce the launch of #OTel blueprints and reference implementations! π
With guidance from experts, you can build production-ready telemetry pipelines that span multiple #OpenTelemetry components.
Learn more and contribute! ποΈ
via #AIFoundry : Whatβs new in Microsoft Foundry | April 2026
https://ift.tt/9uGfk3p
#MicrosoftFoundry #FoundryApril2026 #WhatsNew #GPT55 #GPT-5-5 #AgentFramework #OpenTelemetry #OTel #Tracing #HostedAgent #CodeAct #Hyperlight #PythonSandbox #CustomEvaluators #AgentMonitoringβ¦
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
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.

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...