Guides

Practical, no-fluff guides on testing OpenTelemetry pipelines — written for the people who actually have to make observability work.

Testing

How to Test Your OpenTelemetry Collector Configuration Before Production

A practical checklist for validating collector configs — receivers, processors, exporters — before they hit a real workload.

Protocols

OTLP gRPC vs HTTP: Which Should You Use

A practical comparison — performance, firewall/proxy behavior, and how to choose for your actual network path.

Concepts

Understanding Trace-Log Correlation in Distributed Systems

How correlation actually works under the hood, why it silently breaks, and how to verify it's genuinely working.

Guide

Testing Your Grafana Stack With Synthetic Telemetry

A practical walkthrough for validating Tempo, Loki, and Mimir dashboards and alerts before real traffic arrives.