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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 