Your telemetry doesn’t go straight to the backend: Understanding the OpenTelemetry Collector

The OpenTelemetry Collector helps you manage telemetry beyond application instrumentation. Learn how receivers, processors, and exporters work together, explore agent and gateway deployment patterns, and understand how to handle sensitive data, control telemetry volume, and improve pipeline reliability.

Understanding Observability with OpenTelemetry and Coffee

Understanding Observability with OpenTelemetry and Coffee is your practical guide to modern observability. This blog breaks down OpenTelemetry concepts, explains code instrumentation with .NET 8, and explores the OpenTelemetry Collector. Using a real-world coffee shop microservices app to simplify tracing, logging, and metrics collection. Introducing SigNoz to help you get visibility into your distributed systems.