LinkMesh 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Reduce Dynatrace dependency with OpenTelemetry: run OTel alongside OneAgent, validate signal parity, escape host-unit and DDU pricing.
Roman Hüsler 11 min read
LinkMesh 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 