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OpenTelemetry Adopts Continuous Profiling; Elastic Donates Their Agent
OpenTelemetry has announced that it has incorporated continuous profiling as a core telemetry signal, and Elastic has donated its continuous profiling agent to the OpenTelemetry project.
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Elastic Enhances OpenTelemetry with Profiling Agent, Sharing System Health Insights to the Community
Elastic has recently declared its plan to donate its continuous profiling agent to the OpenTelemetry(OTel) project. This agent is an always-on, continuous profiling solution that eliminates the need for runtime or bytecode instrumentation, recompilation, on-host debug symbols or restarting services.
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Grafana Releases New Frontend Observability SDK and Backend Profiling Database
Grafana has announced two new additions to its suite of observability and monitoring tooling. Grafana Faro is an open-source web SDK for real user monitoring (RUM) of browser frontend applications. Grafana Phlare is an open-source backend database for storing and querying profiling data. A new flame graph panel is available to facilitate visualizing and interpreting the collected profile data.
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New JVM Option Enables Generation of Mixed-Mode Flame Graphs
Java has introduced a new option that enable generation of mixed-mode flame graphs in JDK versions 8 and 9. InfoQ speaks to Netflix performance engineer Brendan Gregg about how this option gives application developers a clearer, combined system and JVM profile of their applications than was possible before.