OpenTelemetry in Production: A Practical Guide to Useful, Sustainable Telemetry

OpenTelemetry in Production: A Practical Guide to Useful, Sustainable Telemetry

OpenTelemetry is not valuable because it produces more telemetry. It is valuable when it helps an engineer answer a production question quickly: what changed, who is affected, where did the request fail, and what should happen next? This guide is a practical starting point for teams moving from basic instrumentation to an observability practice that is useful, affordable, and sustainable. Who this is for This is for software engineers, platform teams, and SREs running distributed applications. It assumes you want vendor-neutral instrumentation and an operational model that works across services, languages, and deployment environments. ...

September 23, 2026 · 5 min · 871 words · Harry Kimpel
Observing Dapr applications with New Relic One

Observing Dapr applications with New Relic One

It was back in 2019 at Microsoft Ignite in Orlando when I discovered a new project referred to as Distributed Application Runtime, or Dapr for short. This immediately caught my attention and Mark Russinovich did an amazing job presenting this to the audience. Dapr is quite an interesting project for me in many ways. First of all, software architecture is near and dear to my heart and Dapr solves a lot of the challenges developers typically face when designing and implementing applications. Its portable, event-driven runtime makes it easy for developers to build resilient, stateless and stateful microservices applications that run on the cloud or edge and embraces the diversity of languages and developer frameworks. ...

January 31, 2021 · 6 min · 1113 words · Harry Kimpel