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If you are using a Datadog, Langfuse, Langchain, or other OTEL target, you do nothing. Just query it. Build alerts, dashboards, and datasets; whatever you normally do with your OTEL collector. A forward OTEL collector deployment is still…

comment by CharlieDigital · 2026-10-19 · in If you don't run your own LLM proxy, how do you know whats going on?

And the receiver: https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-co... I'll have to try this! edit: actually Jaeger can just read those files directly, so no need to run a collector with the receiver. This is great!

comment by remram · 2025-06-15 · in GitHub CI/CD observability with OpenTelemetry step by step guide

https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-co...

comment by sweetgiorni · 2025-06-15 · in GitHub CI/CD observability with OpenTelemetry step by step guide

Great questions! OTel Metrics: I get it, it's specified as almost a superset of everyone's favorite metric standards with config for push/pull, monotonic vs delta, exponential/"native" histograms, etc. I have my preferences as well which…

comment by mikeshi42 · 2025-06-05 · in Show HN: ClickStack – Open-source Datadog alternative by ClickHouse and HyperDX

To be fair, the setup of the article works with most modern observability solutions, in same cases just by replacing the endpoint and authentication token. Turning telemetry processing into a sort of utility is one of the great things that…

comment by mmanciop · 2025-05-12 · in Monitoring my Minecraft server with OpenTelemetry and Prometheus

> having a decent way to get metrics from logs ad-hoc completely solves the metric cardinality explosion. last i checked, the span metrics connector[1] was supposed to "solve" this in otel; but i'm not particularly inclined, as…

comment by thewisenerd · 2025-04-25 · in Observability 2.0 and the Database for It

imo Datadog is pretty hostile to OTel too. Ever since https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-co... was nearly killed by them I never felt like they fully supported the standard (perhaps for good reasons) OTel is a bear…

comment by SomaticPirate · 2025-01-10 · in I got OpenTelemetry to work. But why was it so complicated?

> - Helm sucks, but so does Kustomize Helm != Kubernetes, FWIW I'd argue that Kustomize is the bee's knees but editor support for it sucks (or, I'd also accept that the docs suck, and/or are missing a bazillion examples so us mere mortals…

comment by mdaniel · 2024-11-27 · in Dear friend, you have built a Kubernetes

yes! the full stack includes our recommended schema which has the indexes set up - it's a drop in replacement for anything that would ingest Otel-based telemetry! If you already have Promtail setup - you might want to set up a collector or…

comment by mikeshi42 · 2024-11-13 · in Show HN: Open-source Kibana alternative for logs and traces in ClickHouse

Yes, in the collector-contrib repository you already had support for traces https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-co...

comment by coffeeandhn · 2024-06-18 · in Translate Datadog Metrics into OTLP

multiple services, that should be sampled based on latency. this only works if you have something like: https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-co... or https://grafana.com/docs/tempo/latest/configuration/grafana-... in…

comment by merb · 2024-06-17 · in The problem with OpenTelemetry

you can add https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-co... at signoz's otel-collector which will scrape your service's endpoint periodically. If your service is down, this will give 5xx error and you can set an alert on…

comment by ankitnayan · 2024-05-06 · in Ask HN: How to do simple heartbeat monitoring?

The open telemetry collector does just that. https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-co...

comment by pat2man · 2024-02-28 · in All you need is Wide Events, not "Metrics, Logs and Traces"

Thanks for the reply. Would the Spotlight sidecar possibly be able to run independently and consume spans emitted by the Sentry exporter[0] or some other similar flow beyond strictly exporting directly from the Sentry SDK provided by…

comment by conor- · 2023-12-06 · in Spotlight: Sentry for Development

If you are using the prometheus exporter, you can use the transform processor to get specific resource attributes into metric labels. With the advantage that you get only the specific attributes you want, thus avoiding a cardinality…

comment by ronyaurora · 2023-11-21 · in Migrating to OpenTelemetry

The article seems to suggest https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-co... was silently killed, yet it appears to have been merged in January, am I missing something?

comment by Volundr · 2023-10-31 · in Vendor lock-in in the observability space

OpenTelemetry is a large suite of software, that supports many use cases. I think you got what you wanted but didn't realise it! The dedicated executable that you are after is called the OpenTelemtry Collector. The OpenTelemetry SDK for…

comment by d8c6c050cb0a4d7 · 2023-10-23 · in Ask HN: What's Your Opinion on Opentelemetry?

This arch is how the big players do it at scale (ie. datadog, new relic - the second it passes their edge it lands in a kafka cluster). Also otel components lack rate limiting(1) meaning its super easy to overload your backend storage…

comment by blinded · 2023-10-23 · in OpenTelemetry at Scale: Using Kafka to handle bursty traffic

I really like this idea. And there is an OTEL exporter to AWS S3, still in alpha but I'm gonna test it soon: https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-co...

comment by francoismassot · 2023-10-22 · in OpenTelemetry at Scale: Using Kafka to handle bursty traffic

Just install opentelemetry libs. I found this example with a quick search: https://dev.to/grunet/leveraging-opentelemetry-in-deno-45bj opentelemetry has a service you can run that will collect the telemetry data and you can export it to…

comment by curioussavage · 2023-09-20 · in Tracing: Structured logging, but better

Ah yeah the easiest way is probably using the OpenTelemetry collector to set up a process to pull your logs out of jounrnald and send them via otel logs to HyperDX (or anywhere else that speaks otel) - the docs might be a bit tricky to go…

comment by mikeshi42 · 2023-09-18 · in Show HN: HyperDX – open-source dev-friendly Datadog alternative

…that mess into their head may ask 'err, what's the difference between go.opentelemetry.io/collector and github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib?' $ curl -fsS go.opentelemetry.io/collector | grep go-import <meta…

comment by mdaniel · 2023-06-22 · in Go 1.21 Release Candidate

Apparently OT is a threat to DD to the point of them asking contributors to not add support for their agents… https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-co...

comment by SomaticPirate · 2023-05-08 · in A cryptocurrency company had a $65M bill, per Datadog’s Q1 earnings call

Good news! The PR is moving again! https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-co...

comment by httgp · 2023-01-27 · in DataDog asked OpenTelemetry contributor to kill pull request

The OP didn't link directly to the comment and it's buried in the thread: https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-co...

comment by jru · 2023-01-27 · in DataDog asked OpenTelemetry contributor to kill pull request

https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-co...

comment by s17n · 2023-01-27 · in DataDog asked OpenTelemetry contributor to kill pull request

And then went back uphill in https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-co...

comment by TheRealPomax · 2023-01-27 · in DataDog asked OpenTelemetry contributor to kill pull request

Here is where it started to go downhill: https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-co...

comment by funerr · 2023-01-27 · in DataDog asked OpenTelemetry contributor to kill pull request

Link to exact comment: https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-co...

comment by raybb · 2023-01-26 · in DataDog asked OpenTelemetry contributor to kill pull request

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story by raybb · 2023-01-26 · 95 comments

What schema does SigNoz use with Clickhouse? The Open Telemetry Collector uses this schema https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-co... and I found out that accesing map attributes is much slower (10-50x) compared to…

comment by CSDude · 2023-01-24 · in Elastic, Loki and SigNoz – A Perf Benchmark of Open-Source Logging Platforms

Uptrace / Go process will buffer spans in memory for some short period of time (5-15 seconds). It does not work for long traces, but most traces are short. There is some discussion at https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collecto…

comment by vmihailenco · 2021-12-29 · in Show HN: Distributed Tracing Using OpenTelemetry and ClickHouse

Podman does support docker API so you can use something like the OpenTelemetry Collector to fetch metrics using the docker API and forward them to prometheus. Collector: https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-co...…

comment by owaislone · 2021-09-02 · in Podman: A tool for managing OCI containers and pods