AWS Open Source Blog
Author: Alolita Sharma
Alolita is a senior manager at AWS where she leads open source observability engineering and collaboration for OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Cortex, Grafana. Alolita is co-chair of the CNCF Technical Advisory Group for Observability, member of the OpenTelemetry Governance Committee and a board director of the Unicode Consortium. She contributes to open standards at OpenTelemetry, Unicode and W3C. She has served on the boards of the OSI and SFLC.in. Alolita has led engineering teams at Wikipedia, Twitter, PayPal and IBM. Two decades of doing open source continue to inspire her. You can find her on Twitter @alolita.
Building a Prometheus remote write exporter for the OpenTelemetry Go SDK
Update: Please note that the exporter detailed in this blog post has been retired. See the AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry (ADOT) blog post on migrating to the new setup for further details. In this post, two AWS interns—Eric Lee and Connor Lindsey—describe their experience building a Prometheus remote write exporter for the popular open source […]
Testing the OpenTelemetry C++ Prometheus Exporter
In this post AWS intern Eric Hsueh shares his experience working on OpenTelemetry. OpenTelemetry aims to be the industry standard in collecting telemetry data, which includes metrics, tracing, and logs. Together with fellow AWS intern Cunjun Wang, we developed a C++ Prometheus Exporter as a contribution to the C++ repository of the open source project […]
AWS adds a C++ Prometheus Exporter to OpenTelemetry
In this post, two AWS interns—Cunjun Wang and Eric Hsueh—describe their first engineering contributions to the popular open source observability project OpenTelemetry. OpenTelemetry aims to develop an open standard and provides implementation in multiple programming languages for collecting telemetry data, including metrics, tracing, and logs. The interns contributed the C++ Prometheus Exporter to the OpenTelemetry […]
AWS adds observability metrics to the OpenTelemetry C++ library
In this post, three AWS interns—Brandon Kimberly, Ankit Bhargava, and Hudson Humphries—describe their first engineering contributions to the popular open source observability project OpenTelemetry. Recently we made contributions to OpenTelemetry that included the metrics collection and processing functionality for the C++ library. These metrics are collected from instrumented applications and infrastructure. They allow users to […]
Gearing up for re:Invent 2019 with Open Distro for Elasticsearch sessions
re:Invent 2019 has a new track this year and it’s all about Open Source! There are lots of great sessions coming up on Open Distro for Elasticsearch and its components such as Alerting, Security, and Performance Analyzer. Join in to learn more and participate in hands-on workshops! Keep a lookout for our sessions on machine […]
Join us for the Open Distro Hack Day and more at All Things Open in Raleigh, NC
Note: See the All Things Open 2018 – Conference Wrap-Up for links to slides and more! We’re excited to return to one of our favorite open source community conferences, All Things Open, taking place October 13-15 in Raleigh, NC. AWS is a Presenting Sponsor, and we have some great events lined up – please join […]
Open Distro for Elasticsearch 1.1.0 released
We are happy to announce that Open Distro for Elasticsearch 1.1.0 is now available for download! Version 1.1.0 includes the upstream open source versions of Elasticsearch 7.1.1, Kibana 7.1.1, and the latest updates for alerting, SQL, security, performance analyzer, and Kibana plugins, as well as the SQL JDBC driver. You can find details on enhancements, […]
Open Distro for Elasticsearch version 1.0.0 is now available
Open Distro for Elasticsearch 1.0.0 is now available for you to download and run! The 1.0.0 release includes Elasticsearch 7.0.1 and Kibana 7.0.1 from upstream and the latest versions of the Open Distro for Elasticsearch plugins for alerting, performance analyzer, SQL, and security. The Kibana UI components for security and alerting are also part of […]
New! Open Distro for Elasticsearch’s Job Scheduler Plugin
中文版 – Open Distro for Elasticsearch’s JobScheduler plugin provides a framework for developers to accomplish common, scheduled tasks on their cluster. You can implement Job Scheduler’s Service Provider Interface (SPI) to take snapshots, manage your data’s lifecycle, run periodic jobs, and much more. When you use Job Scheduler, you build a plugin that implements interfaces provided […]
Build Your Own: Open Distro for Elasticsearch Build Scripts Now Available
中文版 – Want to craft your own Docker images using Open Distro for Elasticsearch build scripts? Or build your RPM or Debian packages to customize your own Open Distro for Elasticsearch stack? Our build scripts for Elasticsearch and for Kibana are now available for you to do just that. As with the rest of Open […]