Writing

A book, a course, and 34 posts and guides, newest first — podcast appearances are on the podcasts page.

OpenTelemetry For Dummies, Dash0 Special Edition

What separates observability from monitoring, how to correlate logs, metrics and traces, and how to tell an OpenTelemetry-native platform from one that merely supports it.

course · Platform Engineering University · 120 min

Observability for Platform Engineering

Five modules on making observability a core platform capability — the tooling landscape, OpenTelemetry, and automation. Taught with Michele Mancioppi.

blog Dash0 Joins the Agentic AI Foundation — Dash0 Blog 2026-09-09 guide Observing Goose on Ollama with OpenTelemetry — Dash0 Guides 2026-08-17 blog In Search of Observability's Rails Moment — Dash0 Blog 2026-08-14 blog Introducing AI Coding Insights: Stop Guessing What Your Coding Agents Deliver — Dash0 Blog 2026-07-07 blog Observing Kubernetes Ingress Controllers with OpenTelemetry — Dash0 Blog 2026-05-18 blog Understanding OpenTelemetry Support in Istio Gateway — Dash0 Blog 2026-05-15 blog Understanding OpenTelemetry Support in Emissary Ingress — Dash0 Blog 2026-05-11 blog Understanding OpenTelemetry Support in Traefik — Dash0 Blog 2026-05-08 blog Understanding OpenTelemetry Support in Contour — Dash0 Blog 2026-05-04 blog Understanding OpenTelemetry Support in kgateway — Dash0 Blog 2026-04-24 blog Observability at the Edge: OpenTelemetry in Ingress Controllers — Dash0 Blog 2026-04-15 blog Moving Beyond “Supports OpenTelemetry”: Why There’s a Need for a Shared Maturity Model — Dash0 Blog 2026-04-10 blog Deep Diving into Dapr Workflows and OpenTelemetry – Tracing the Invisible Parts of Asynchronous Communication — Dash0 Blog 2026-01-20 blog Observability at the Edge: OpenTelemetry Support in Kubernetes Ingress Controllers — Dash0 Blog 2025-10-01 blog Observing Emissary Ingress with OpenTelemetry and Dash0 — Dash0 Blog 2025-09-30 blog Observing Traefik with OpenTelemetry and Dash0 — Dash0 Blog 2025-09-29 blog Observing Contour with OpenTelemetry and Dash0 — Dash0 Blog 2025-09-26 blog Observing Ingress-NGINX with OpenTelemetry and Dash0 — Dash0 Blog 2025-09-23 blog Observable Event-Driven Autoscaling with KEDA, OpenTelemetry, and Dash0 — Dash0 Blog 2025-09-17 blog Observing Dapr with OpenTelemetry and Dash0 — Dash0 Blog 2025-09-03 guide OpenTelemetry Auto-instrumentation in Java — Dash0 Guides 2025-07-01 guide Exploring OpenTelemetry Go Instrumentation via eBPF — Dash0 Guides 2025-03-26 guide Unlocking Kubernetes Observability with the OpenTelemetry Operator — Dash0 Guides 2025-03-26 blog Breaking the multi-cloud barrier in a regulated industry — CNCF End User Blog Post 2024-01-01 blog CloudNativeCon+KubeCon North America Recap — Lunar Tech Blog 2024-01-01 blog Fresh crop of IT automation tools targets platform engineers — TechTarget 2024-01-01 blog Handling rapid growth with Backstage — Roadie.io 2024-01-01 blog Humio at Lunar — Humio 2024-01-01 blog Kubernetes multi-cluster users tap service mesh alternatives — TechTarget 2024-01-01 blog Lessons from the K8s Vanguard: Invest in Onboarding, Freedom & Responsibility, and Integrated Tooling — Ambassador Labs 2024-01-01 blog Lunar Bank Uses GitOps to Standardize Workflows and Enhance the Developer Experience — Weaveworks blog 2024-01-01 blog Nordic bank fights money launderers with log analytics — Tech Target 2024-01-01 blog Sidecarless service mesh: Fad or the future? — TechTarget 2024-01-01 blog Snyk at Lunar — Snyk 2024-01-01

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