This is the second part in a series about OpenTelemetry:
Part 1 - Distributed Tracing Part 2 - Metrics and Logs (this post) Part 3 - Cloud-native integration with AWS Metrics Telemetry has long been used in industries to monitor and predict potential issues.
By Lev Polyakov (www.polyakovproductions.com) When I had to investigate a production issue in the past, one of the first steps was correlating log entries from multiple servers to find out full journey of a request.
Kubernetes (k8s) has introduced a number of ways to extend its APIs and data structure for customising and managing complex workloads. In this post, I attempt to leverage k8s’s Operator pattern and Custom Resource Definition (CRD) to manage the life cycle of a Kafka consumer group running atop a k8s cluster.