LinkMesh Compliance Governance
PII vs CID
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PII and client-identifying data are different legal categories. No scanner reliably finds the second — classify before data leaves the network.
Philippe Braxmeier 10 min read Blog
Telemetry pipeline management, OpenTelemetry, and observability cost control — from the team building LinkMesh.
LinkMesh Philippe Braxmeier 10 min read 
LinkMesh OpenTelemetry Observability
Grafana Fleet Management vs LinkMesh
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Grafana Fleet Management went GA for upstream OTel Collectors in July 2026. An honest comparison, and the one question that decides between them.
Philippe Braxmeier 8 min read
LinkMesh OpenTelemetry Telemetry Pipelines
Route Telemetry by Attribute
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Attribute-based routing in the OpenTelemetry Collector — a priority-ordered, first-match-wins cascade you build with a picker instead of raw OTTL.
Roman Hüsler 9 min read
LinkMesh OpenTelemetry Compliance
Secrets in Collector Config
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Keep credentials out of committed Collector config: env vars, file substitution, Kubernetes Secrets, Vault — and how to rotate without downtime.
Roman Hüsler 10 min read
LinkMesh Observability AIOps
Observability vs AIOps
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Observability explores telemetry; AIOps applies ML to detect, correlate and automate. Where the line sits, and why your pipeline decides both.
Philippe Braxmeier 12 min read
LinkMesh OpenTelemetry Logs
Your Logs Aren't JSON. That's Fine.
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Real logs aren't JSON. How to fold multiline stack traces into single events, parse just enough to query them, and ship them to Loki.
Roman Hüsler 5 min read
LinkMesh OpenTelemetry Windows
Windows Server → Grafana
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Install the OpenTelemetry Collector as a Windows service, read the counters and event channels you already know, and send them to Grafana.
Roman Hüsler 9 min read
LinkMesh OpenTelemetry Windows
Windows & Linux Update Monitoring
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Collect patch state — pending updates, security patches, reboot-required — from Windows and Linux with one OTel Collector, and alert in Grafana.
Roman Hüsler 7 min read 
LinkMesh OpenTelemetry Fleet Management
Collector Fleet Management
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Running one Collector is easy; running a fleet is a discipline. Drift, version skew and blind rollouts — and how to manage them from one control plane.
Philippe Braxmeier 7 min read
LinkMesh OpenTelemetry Grafana Alloy
Keeping a Collector Fleet Current
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Version drift, unpatched CVEs and 3am rollbacks. How to detect outdated OpenTelemetry collectors and upgrade them health-gated and reversibly.
Roman Hüsler 5 min read
LinkMesh OpenTelemetry Observability
Storage Monitoring with OTel
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The 10 storage metrics worth tracking — capacity, performance, health — and how to collect them from servers and arrays with one OTel Collector.
Roman Hüsler 6 min read
LinkMesh OpenTelemetry Pipelines
Preview the Chain, Not the Incident
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Editing a pipeline blind is how a greedy regex reaches production. Open any processor and watch a real record go in one side and out the other.
Philippe Braxmeier 4 min read
LinkMesh OpenTelemetry Observability
Throughput You Can Actually See
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Most tools tell you your telemetry volume in next month's invoice. Put a live records-per-second number on every edge of the topology instead.
Philippe Braxmeier 6 min read
LinkMesh Debugging Observability
Debugging Telemetry Pipelines
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Collector running, no data arriving, logs silent. How to debug a telemetry pipeline by inspecting real records per route, processor by processor.
Roman Hüsler 7 min read
LinkMesh Compliance Observability
Masking PII in Logs
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Mask PII in-pipeline before telemetry crosses your network boundary — attribute deletion, regex masking, and hashing that preserves correlation.
Roman Hüsler 6 min read
LinkMesh OpenTelemetry Telemetry Pipelines
Dual-Shipping Without Duplicates
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Dual-ship telemetry to two backends to validate a migration — without double-counting hosts, doubling metrics or duplicating every log line.
Roman Hüsler 8 min read
LinkMesh OpenTelemetry GitOps
Config Rollout & Rollback
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Roll out Collector config safely across a fleet: validate, canary to a subset, version as source of truth, and roll back fast with OpAMP.
Roman Hüsler 7 min read 
LinkMesh OpenTelemetry Governance
Detecting Config Drift
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Config drift is silent: unredacted PII, cost blowouts, unattributed data. How to detect it against your source of truth — and prevent it with OpAMP.
Roman Hüsler 8 min read
LinkMesh Governance OpenTelemetry
Governance & Enforcement
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Turn telemetry policy — PII redaction, cost caps, approved destinations — into rules enforced across a Collector fleet with OpAMP and a control plane.
Philippe Braxmeier 9 min read
LinkMesh Observability Telemetry Pipelines
Cribl Alternatives (2026)
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Seven Cribl alternatives for 2026 — open-source, OpenTelemetry-native and self-hosted — with an honest look at when Cribl is still the right call.
Philippe Braxmeier 10 min read
LinkMesh OpenTelemetry Migration
Elastic Agent → OpenTelemetry
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Replace Filebeat, Metricbeat and Fleet-managed Elastic Agent with OTel Collectors and OpAMP — keeping Elasticsearch and Kibana while you dual-run.
Roman Hüsler 13 min read 
LinkMesh OpenTelemetry Migration
Dynatrace → OpenTelemetry
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Reduce Dynatrace dependency with OpenTelemetry: run OTel alongside OneAgent, validate signal parity, escape host-unit and DDU pricing.
Roman Hüsler 11 min read
LinkMesh OpenTelemetry Migration
Splunk Enterprise → OpenTelemetry
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Replace universal and heavy forwarders and HEC with OTel Collectors, keep Splunk as a destination while you dual-run, and move cost off per-GB.
Roman Hüsler 12 min read
LinkMesh OpenTelemetry Migration
New Relic → OpenTelemetry
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Replace New Relic APM and Infrastructure agents with OTel SDKs and Collectors, keep New Relic over OTLP while you dual-run, then cut the bill.
Roman Hüsler 13 min read
LinkMesh OpenTelemetry Migration
Datadog → OpenTelemetry
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Step by step: replace the Datadog Agent with OTel Collectors, dual-ship to compare, then cut the per-host and per-GB bill before ingest.
Roman Hüsler 11 min read
LinkMesh OpenTelemetry Governance
Sampling Governance
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Head vs tail sampling, always keeping errors and slow traces, consistent trace-id sampling — and why sample rates belong under central governance.
Roman Hüsler 9 min read
LinkMesh OpenTelemetry Telemetry Pipelines
Multi-Tenant Collectors
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Isolation, tenant identification and per-tenant routing for a shared OpenTelemetry Collector fleet — dedicated vs shared pipelines, quotas, RBAC.
Roman Hüsler 11 min read
LinkMesh OpenTelemetry Telemetry Pipelines
Collector High Availability
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A single Collector is a single point of failure. HA across agent and gateway tiers: load-balanced pools, sending queues, and persistent queues.
Roman Hüsler 8 min read
LinkMesh GitOps Observability
GitOps for Observability
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Treat Collector configs like code: git-backed storage, commit and publish, review and rollback — plus the drift detection plain GitOps can't give you.
Roman Hüsler 6 min read 
LinkMesh Cost Optimization Observability
Reduce Observability Costs
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A practical playbook to cut observability spend: measure per-route volume, filter noise at the edge, sample, and route before the invoice lands.
Philippe Braxmeier 7 min read
LinkMesh OpenTelemetry Observability
What OTel Can (and Can't) Replace
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OpenTelemetry replaces collection and transport, not your backend. What it takes over cleanly, what you must rebuild, and how to scope a migration.
Philippe Braxmeier 7 min read
LinkMesh OpenTelemetry Observability
The End of Vendor Lock-In
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OTLP, the Collector and OpAMP make collection portable and give you a real exit path. What OpenTelemetry decouples — and what it doesn't.
Philippe Braxmeier 11 min read 
LinkMesh OpAMP OpenTelemetry
OpAMP Explained
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OpAMP remote-manages a fleet of OpenTelemetry collectors — status up, config down. How the protocol works, and the control-plane gap it leaves.
Roman Hüsler 7 min read
LinkMesh Grafana Alloy OpenTelemetry
Alloy vs. OpenTelemetry Collector
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Grafana Alloy or the OpenTelemetry Collector? The real differences — config language, remote management, ecosystem — and how to run a mixed fleet.
Philippe Braxmeier 7 min read
LinkMesh OpenTelemetry Telemetry Pipelines
Collector Deployment Patterns
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Five ways to deploy an OpenTelemetry Collector — agent-per-host, DaemonSet, sidecar, gateway, hybrid — compared, plus the no-collector option.
Roman Hüsler 11 min read 
LinkMesh OpenTelemetry Observability
OTel Architecture for Enterprises
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The reference architecture for OpenTelemetry at scale: agent collectors, a central gateway tier, and OpAMP as the control plane that configures it.
Philippe Braxmeier 11 min read 
LinkMesh OpenTelemetry Observability
What Is a Telemetry Pipeline?
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A telemetry pipeline sits between your systems and your backends — where you control cost, routing and PII. What it is and how to run your own.
Philippe Braxmeier 7 min read
LinkMesh OpenTelemetry Observability
Introducing LinkMesh
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A control plane for your whole OpenTelemetry Collector fleet: enroll every node over one port, push config from one place, watch throughput live.
Philippe Braxmeier 3 min read