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OpenTelemetry Collector Contrib: A Comprehensive Guide

Learn how to use the OpenTelemetry Collector Contrib distribution to collect, process, and export telemetry data. This guide covers architecture, key components, configuration examples, and practical deployment tips.

Observability vs. Monitoring: What's the Difference?

Observability vs monitoring explained. Learn the key differences, use cases, and why modern teams move beyond monitoring to observability.

Full Stack Observability: The Complete Guide

A complete guide to full stack observability - covering frontend, backend, infrastructure, traces, logs, metrics, and OpenTelemetry for DevOps and SRE teams.

Incident Correlation: The Complete Guide to Faster Root Cause Analysis

Learn how incident correlation transforms observability by connecting logs, metrics, traces, and alerts into actionable insights. Discover why modern engineering teams rely on correlated telemetry to reduce MTTR and eliminate blind spots in distributed systems.

Simran Kumari

2026-02-02

DataDog vs OpenObserve Part 7: Pipelines - Datadog Alternative in 2026

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DataDog vs OpenObserve Part 7: Pipelines - Datadog Alternative in 2026

Hands-on comparison of DataDog vs OpenObserve pipelines. Explore real-time vs scheduled processing, VRL-based transformations, multi-destination routing, and cost-efficient, unified observability pipelines without extra infrastructure.

Simran Kumari

2026-01-16

DataDog vs OpenObserve: Part 5 - Alerts, Monitors, and Destinations

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DataDog vs OpenObserve: Part 5 - Alerts, Monitors, and Destinations

Hands-on comparison of DataDog and OpenObserve for alerting and monitoring. DataDog's proprietary monitor syntax and per-custom-metric charges vs OpenObserve's SQL-based unified alerts, composite conditions with joins, and Jinja2-templated notifications. Real test data shows custom metric pricing impact on alert coverage versus flat-rate pricing with comprehensive alerting capabilities.

Simran Kumari

2026-01-12

Announcement

Major Product Update! OpenObserve v0.40.0

OpenObserve v0.40.0 comes just in time for the new year, a milestone release that brings major architectural improvements, powerful new alerting capabilities, enhanced observability features, and significant UI/UX refinements. This release represents months of work focused on making OpenObserve more powerful, reliable, and user-friendly.

Simran Kumari, Jake Swiss

2026-01-06

Convert Raw Logs into Metrics with OpenObserve Pipelines

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Convert Raw Logs into Metrics with OpenObserve Pipelines

Learn how to convert raw logs into metrics using OpenObserve pipelines. Step-by-step guide to extract time-series metrics for faster dashboards and reliable alerts.

How to Debug a Real-Time Pipeline in OpenObserve: Complete Guide

A step-by-step guide to debugging real-time observability pipelines in OpenObserve, covering log ingestion, pipeline errors, and troubleshooting.

Simran Kumari

2025-12-15

Payment Monitoring with Stripe in OpenObserve

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Payment Monitoring with Stripe in OpenObserve

Enable end-to-end payment monitoring by sending Stripe events to OpenObserve and analyzing success/failure rates using dashboards, SQL queries, and alerts.

RED Metrics: Monitoring Requests, Errors, and Latency for Microservices

Learn how to use RED Metrics: Requests, Errors, Duration to monitor microservices effectively. Explore dashboards, SLOs, alerts, and OpenObserve examples for real-time observability.

Monitoring AWS Bedrock: Collecting Logs & Metrics in OpenObserve

Learn how to monitor AWS Bedrock with CloudWatch, Kinesis Firehose, and OpenObserve. Track latency, errors, token usage, and model performance in real-time.

Prometheus Alertmanager VS OpenObserve’s In-Built Alerting : Unified Alerting and Observability

Simplify Prometheus Alertmanager setups with OpenObserve -unified alerts for metrics, logs, and traces, no YAML required.

How to Export Azure Monitor Metrics using OpenTelemetry to OpenObserve

Collect and export Azure Monitor metrics to OpenObserve using the OpenTelemetry Collector. Build real-time dashboards, query metrics, and set up SQL-based alerts for Azure VMs, AKS, and other resources.

Prometheus Metric Types (Counters, Gauges, Histograms, Summaries)

A clear, developer-focused guide to Prometheus metric types, when to use each one, and how OpenObserve enhances Prometheus by solving retention, scalability, and correlation limitations.

Azure Monitoring with Otel Collector and OpenObserve: Collect Logs & Metrics from Any Resource

Monitor Azure VMs, databases, storage, and networking with a single pipeline using Event Hub → OTel Collector → OpenObserve. Simplify logging & metrics.

Simran Kumari

2025-11-18

Full-Stack Observability: How Logs, Metrics, and Traces Work Better Together

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Full-Stack Observability: How Logs, Metrics, and Traces Work Better Together

Discover how full-stack observability helps teams correlate telemetry across systems to cut MTTR, reduce data costs, and improve performance.

Raven Welch, Simran Kumari

2025-11-13

Cloud Monitoring for AWS, Azure, and GCP with OpenObserve

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Cloud Monitoring for AWS, Azure, and GCP with OpenObserve

Discover how to monitor cloud resources effectively. Use OpenObserve to analyze logs, metrics, and traces for better visibility, alerts, and performance.

Simran Kumari

2025-11-12

Scaling Observability for Peak Traffic: A Practical Guide to Building Resilient Observability Systems

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Scaling Observability for Peak Traffic: A Practical Guide to Building Resilient Observability Systems

Learn how to scale observability systems to handle Black Friday-level traffic without losing visibility. Discover best practices for ingestion tuning, query optimization, and resilience using OpenObserve.

Manas Sharma, Simran Kumari

2025-11-10

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Log Searching and Filtering

Search, filter, and analyze logs efficiently to uncover insights faster. Explore advanced log search techniques, query filters, and best practices for managing large-scale log data

Simran Kumari

2025-10-29

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How to Import Prebuilt Kubernetes (K8s) Dashboards in OpenObserve

Import OpenObserve’s prebuilt Kubernetes dashboards for end-to-end visibility, trend analysis, and proactive alerts across clusters.

Simran Kumari

2025-10-27

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