DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #695 - 28th April 2024

A short issue this week, with some interesting posts on observability and incident response, devops community and naming.

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News

A detailed post on one organisation’s Prometheus setup and an analysis of alerts over time to improve on-call experience.
https://blog.cloudflare.com/alerts-observability

A curated list of public Telegram channels and groups (chats) dedicated to DevOps, SRE, and Platform Engineering.
https://github.com/palark/awesome-devops-telegram

An interview focused on incident management, with a nice example and discussion of implementing processes and tools including chat integration, incident commander roles and more.
https://klaviyo.tech/klaviyo-incident-management-interview-with-laura-stone-28563ac9558b

If you’re using AWS, you’ve probably come across ARNs, Amazon Resource Names. This post explains what they are, and how information is encoded in the name.
https://everythingdevops.dev/what-is-amazon-resource-name-arn/

A set of posts on OpenTelemetry best practices, starting out with naming and automatic instrumentation.
https://www.honeycomb.io/blog/opentelemetry-best-practices-naming
https://www.honeycomb.io/blog/opentelemetry-best-practices-agents-sidecars-collectors