Practical, no-fluff guides on testing OpenTelemetry pipelines — written for the people who actually have to make observability work.
A practical checklist for validating collector configs — receivers, processors, exporters — before they hit a real workload.
ProtocolsA practical comparison — performance, firewall/proxy behavior, and how to choose for your actual network path.
ConceptsHow correlation actually works under the hood, why it silently breaks, and how to verify it's genuinely working.
GuideA practical walkthrough for validating Tempo, Loki, and Mimir dashboards and alerts before real traffic arrives.