Opentelemetry on Sagar Panda | DevOps & Cloud Infra Engineer

Seeing Inside Amazon EKS with OpenTelemetry 🔍

Sat, 20 Jun 2026 07:45:10 +0530

Why This Setup?

Before getting into the architecture, a few quick notes. Telemetry goes to both New Relic and Honeycomb to test OpenTelemetry’s backend-independence promise and compare the two. New Relic wins on day-to-day usability — dashboards, APM, and alerts work intuitively. Honeycomb takes more getting used to, but its MCP server is where it genuinely shines: connected to Claude, you can ask plain-English questions against live telemetry — no NRQL or PromQL required. That’s the part worth jumping to 👇 first if you’re short on time.

Hands-On OpenTelemetry: Prometheus, Jaeger, Grafana and the OTel Demo

Mon, 08 Jun 2026 09:10:10 +0530

Preface

In the previous article, we covered the core observability concepts theoretically. The next step is exploring them practically using the OpenTelemetry Demo application.

The goal here is not to memorize PromQL syntax, but to understand how telemetry actually appears inside a real observability platform. So, let’s get started.

Observability 101: Understanding Metrics, Traces and Logs

Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:30:10 +0530

Introduction

Most engineers encounter observability only after something breaks.

You are deep in the zone on a new feature when an urgent incident gets escalated. The report from customer support is notoriously vague:

 
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"The website is slow."
"Checkout is failing."
"The API is timing out."
"The website is slow."
"Checkout is failing."
"The API is timing out."

The challenge in modern systems is rarely fixing the bug once you find it. The real headache is finding where the problem lives in the first place.

OTel Labs Platform

Thu, 15 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000

GitOps infrastructure and Kubernetes platform for an OpenTelemetry observability demo, provisioned on Amazon EKS.