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    Creating Your Own Collector Distribution from OllyGarden Tulip
    LatestMay 27, 2026

    Creating Your Own Collector Distribution from OllyGarden Tulip

    Tulip gives you a commercially supported OpenTelemetry Collector with a curated component set. When you need more, you can derive your own distribution while keeping support for the core pipeline. This post walks through how.

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    Decomposing OpenTelemetry Collector Configuration for Maintainability
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    Decomposing OpenTelemetry Collector Configuration for Maintainability

    When your collector configuration grows beyond a few hundred lines, you start feeling the friction. This post examines practical strategies for decomposing collector configurations into maintainable, testable units.

    May 11, 2026Juraci Paixão Kröhling
    OpenTelemetry is not hard
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    OpenTelemetry is not hard

    When I asked the community about their pain points with OpenTelemetry, one response kept appearing: 'it's complicated.' I think the framing is wrong.

    May 4, 2026Juraci Paixão Kröhling

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    Purposeful Instrumentation

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