OTel Collector vs Vector vs Fluent Bit: 2026 Telemetry Pipeline
OpenTelemetry Collector vs Vector vs Fluent Bit in 2026: throughput, memory, transforms, backpressure and the right telemetry-pipeline agent for edge and cloud.
OTLP vs Prometheus Remote Write: The 2026 Metrics Pipeline Decision
OTLP metrics vs Prometheus remote write compared for 2026: cardinality control, push vs pull, and the migration path for existing Prometheus fleets.
AIOps Incident Response Architecture: Agentic SRE and Alert Correlation (2026)
A reference architecture for AIOps incident response: telemetry ingestion, alert correlation, LLM-assisted triage, agentic auto-remediation, and the guardrails that keep automation safe.
Continuous Profiling with eBPF: Flamegraphs in Prod
A hands-on guide to continuous profiling with eBPF: how Pyroscope and Parca capture CPU and memory flamegraphs in production with near-zero overhead.
AI Agent Trajectory Evaluation: 2026 Patterns
How to evaluate AI agents in 2026: trajectory vs outcome metrics, step-level scoring, LLM-as-judge pitfalls, and a reusable agent eval harness pattern.
Grafana Alloy: An OpenTelemetry Collector Tutorial
A 2026 Grafana Alloy tutorial: build an OpenTelemetry collector pipeline for metrics, logs, and traces, with working config, components, and deployment tips.
Cilium Tetragon Runtime Security: eBPF Hands-On (2026)
A hands-on 2026 guide to Cilium Tetragon: eBPF runtime security, TracingPolicy, process and network enforcement, and how it differs from Falco.
Edge Observability ADR: OpenTelemetry vs Prometheus+Loki
An ADR-style 2026 decision on edge-fleet observability: OpenTelemetry vs Prometheus+Loki, collector topology, cost at the edge, and the consequences of each.
OpenTelemetry Collector Architecture: Pipelines, Processors, Exporters
OpenTelemetry Collector architecture — receivers, processors, exporters, gateway vs agent deployment, tail sampling, and high-cardinality survival tips.
OpenTelemetry for Industrial IoT Observability (2026)
OpenTelemetry for industrial IoT observability — instrument edge services, run the OTel Collector, and ship traces, metrics, and logs end to end.