Posts tagged “OpenTelemetry”

PII and client-identifying data are different legal categories. No scanner reliably finds the second — classify before data leaves the network.

Philippe Braxmeier · Aug 6, 2026 · 10 min read

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 · Jul 31, 2026 · 8 min read

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 · Jul 25, 2026 · 9 min read

Keep credentials out of committed Collector config: env vars, file substitution, Kubernetes Secrets, Vault — and how to rotate without downtime.

Roman Hüsler · Jul 22, 2026 · 10 min read

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 · Jul 17, 2026 · 5 min read

Install the OpenTelemetry Collector as a Windows service, read the counters and event channels you already know, and send them to Grafana.

Roman Hüsler · Jul 16, 2026 · 9 min read

Collect patch state — pending updates, security patches, reboot-required — from Windows and Linux with one OTel Collector, and alert in Grafana.

Roman Hüsler · Jul 15, 2026 · 7 min read

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 · Jul 14, 2026 · 7 min read

Version drift, unpatched CVEs and 3am rollbacks. How to detect outdated OpenTelemetry collectors and upgrade them health-gated and reversibly.

Roman Hüsler · Jul 13, 2026 · 5 min read

The 10 storage metrics worth tracking — capacity, performance, health — and how to collect them from servers and arrays with one OTel Collector.

Roman Hüsler · Jul 11, 2026 · 6 min read

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 · Jul 8, 2026 · 4 min read

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 · Jul 4, 2026 · 6 min read

Collector running, no data arriving, logs silent. How to debug a telemetry pipeline by inspecting real records per route, processor by processor.

Roman Hüsler · Jun 30, 2026 · 7 min read

Mask PII in-pipeline before telemetry crosses your network boundary — attribute deletion, regex masking, and hashing that preserves correlation.

Roman Hüsler · Jun 25, 2026 · 6 min read

Dual-ship telemetry to two backends to validate a migration — without double-counting hosts, doubling metrics or duplicating every log line.

Roman Hüsler · Jun 18, 2026 · 8 min read

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 · May 26, 2026 · 7 min read

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 · May 12, 2026 · 8 min read

Turn telemetry policy — PII redaction, cost caps, approved destinations — into rules enforced across a Collector fleet with OpAMP and a control plane.

Philippe Braxmeier · Apr 29, 2026 · 9 min read

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 · Apr 15, 2026 · 10 min read

Replace Filebeat, Metricbeat and Fleet-managed Elastic Agent with OTel Collectors and OpAMP — keeping Elasticsearch and Kibana while you dual-run.

Roman Hüsler · Apr 1, 2026 · 13 min read

Reduce Dynatrace dependency with OpenTelemetry: run OTel alongside OneAgent, validate signal parity, escape host-unit and DDU pricing.

Roman Hüsler · Mar 19, 2026 · 11 min read

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 · Mar 4, 2026 · 12 min read

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 · Feb 18, 2026 · 13 min read

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 · Feb 3, 2026 · 11 min read

Head vs tail sampling, always keeping errors and slow traces, consistent trace-id sampling — and why sample rates belong under central governance.

Roman Hüsler · Jan 21, 2026 · 9 min read

Isolation, tenant identification and per-tenant routing for a shared OpenTelemetry Collector fleet — dedicated vs shared pipelines, quotas, RBAC.

Roman Hüsler · Jan 8, 2026 · 11 min read

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 · Dec 16, 2025 · 8 min read

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 · Dec 3, 2025 · 6 min read

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 · Nov 4, 2025 · 7 min read

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 · Oct 22, 2025 · 11 min read

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 · Oct 7, 2025 · 7 min read

Grafana Alloy or the OpenTelemetry Collector? The real differences — config language, remote management, ecosystem — and how to run a mixed fleet.

Philippe Braxmeier · Sep 24, 2025 · 7 min read

Five ways to deploy an OpenTelemetry Collector — agent-per-host, DaemonSet, sidecar, gateway, hybrid — compared, plus the no-collector option.

Roman Hüsler · Sep 9, 2025 · 11 min read

The reference architecture for OpenTelemetry at scale: agent collectors, a central gateway tier, and OpAMP as the control plane that configures it.

Philippe Braxmeier · Aug 21, 2025 · 11 min read

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 · Aug 5, 2025 · 7 min read

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 · Jul 16, 2025 · 3 min read