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Posts about OpenTelemetry, observability, and building Telflo.

Span Metrics Without the Cardinality Explosion

Turn the spans you already emit into RED metrics with the spanmetrics connector, and avoid the one mistake that quietly multiplies your time series into a five-figure metrics bill.

June 13, 2026·14 min read

Open Telemetry Fleet Management or "The Art of Managing Chaos"

Open Telemetry Fleet Management

June 6, 2026·9 min read

Drop it at the edge: cutting your observability bill with OpenTelemetry

The cheapest place to cut your observability bill is the Collector, not the backend. A practical guide to dropping noise with OpenTelemetry, then flipping to full fidelity when an incident hits.

June 1, 2026·8 min read

Monitoring Kubernetes with the OpenTelemetry Collector

The agent + gateway collector pattern for Kubernetes. Every receiver, processor, and pipeline explained, with two ready templates.

May 2, 2026·17 min read

Welcome to the Telflo blog

OpenTelemetry deep dives, collector config patterns, and what's new in Telflo. Starting with a clean OTLP-to-multiple-backends setup.

April 29, 2026·4 min read