[Blog Post]: Observability at the Edge: OpenTelemetry Support in Kubernetes Ingress Controllers

[kaspernissen]

Blog Post Title

Observability at the Edge: OpenTelemetry Support in Kubernetes Ingress Controllers

Blog Post Outline

The blog post is already written: https://www.dash0.com/blog/observability-at-the-edge-opentelemetry-support-in-kubernetes-ingress-controllers

The idea of the post is to summarize my deep dives in the current OpenTelemetry support in ingress controllers and provides guidance on how to observe the edge of a kubernetes cluster.

The original blog post is posed on the Dash0 blog, but I think this has relevance to the broader community. Nothing in the deep-dives is proprietary or vendor specific.

Technologies Used

• OpenTelemetry Collector (+ helm chart presets)
• Prometheus metrics collection using the prometheus receiver
• OTTL

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Additional Information

I have a draft PR ready here: #7959

[svrnm]

Hey, thanks for bringing this to the opentelemetry blog @kaspernissen

Is the goal to only drop the overview blog post here or the series of individual posts?

Note that we currently have a full pipeline of blog posts, so it would take a while until we would be able to publish this

[kaspernissen]

Thank you for the quick response, @svrnm! 🙏

My idea was to only drop the overview, the individual posts are a bit more vendor specific as I used Dash0 as the observability backend, though still completely usable with other tools.

Yes, I noticed a lot of posts in the pipeline. Do you want me to update my draft PR with a specific date and convert it to be ready?

[svrnm]

I missed that you dropped a draft PR already, that answers my question, I'll take a look there.

For the date: you can leave it as is, we will set it shortly before we merge it, I just want to set expecations right.

[kaspernissen]

No problem - and thank you for setting expectations 🙏