Guide / 9 min read Debug Your OpenTelemetry Collector Locally Before You Blame the Backend Stop guessing where telemetry disappeared. Run the OpenTelemetry Collector locally with Docker Compose, send traces, metrics, and logs through it, and verify both pipeline telemetry and Collector self-metrics. Published May 30, 2026 opentelemetry collector prometheus
Guide / 14 min read A Practical Baseline for OpenTelemetry on Kubernetes How to split node-local and cluster-wide OpenTelemetry Collectors on Kubernetes with Helm, explicit OTLP export to a backend, and a small proof path for traces, metrics, and logs. Published May 12, 2026 kubernetes opentelemetry observability
