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LatestFebruary 17, 2026
When to Use Each Telemetry Signal: Logs, Traces, and Metrics
Confused about logs, traces, and metrics? Learn when to use each telemetry signal in OpenTelemetry and build a stronger observability strategy.
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You don't have too much telemetry. You have bad telemetry.
High observability costs are rarely a volume problem. Learn how to fix bad telemetry at the source before relying on sampling.
Feb 4, 2026Juraci Paixão Kröhling
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Reducing Log Volume with the OpenTelemetry Log Deduplication Processor
Your logs are probably at least 80% repetitive noise. Connection retries, health checks, heartbeat messages: the same log line repeated thousands of times pe...
Jan 19, 2026Juraci Paixão Kröhling
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