Stop Replaying Your Logs
Data replay made sense when archives were dead. They aren't anymore.
Ben JohnsonObservabilityCost reduction
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Notes from the telemetry layer.
Technical writing, product notes, policy work, and what falls out of building context over production telemetry.Ben Johnson
Policies are Officially Part of OpenTelemetry
The Policy OTEP has been merged into OpenTelemetry!
Jacob AronoffTelemetry PoliciesTelemetry governance
We Can Understand It All Now
The waste question forced a harder realization: production telemetry can be continuously understood.
Ben JohnsonAgent telemetryObservabilityCost reduction
Introducing Policies
A look at portable telemetry policies, dynamic control, and the data-plane work behind safer telemetry changes.
Jacob AronoffTelemetry PoliciesTelemetry governanceCost reduction
The Technical Details of Policies for the Nerds Who Care
A technical look at policy runtime design, pipeline bottlenecks, Hyperscan, and constant-time matching.
Jacob AronoffTelemetry PoliciesTelemetry governance
The Question Your Observability Vendor Won't Answer
After a decade in observability, one question kept coming back: how much of your data is waste?
Ben JohnsonCost reductionObservability