Open Telemetry

How to Reduce OpenTelemetry Metric Cardinality in Production

High OpenTelemetry metric cardinality can create millions of time series, increase observability costs, and make your metrics backend harder to operate. Here’s how we identified and reduced metric cardinality in a Kubernetes environment without throwing away useful telemetry. OpenTelemetry makes it remarkably easy to instrument modern applications. You add instrumentation, collect metrics, send them to […]