Two changes to the OpenTelemetry Kafka receiver that stop one slow tenant stalling the rest
Observability Labs
Two changes to the OpenTelemetry Kafka receiver that stop one slow tenant stalling the rest
Every Kafka partition now gets its own worker, and no tenant can take more than its share of the sending queue, so when one tenant's cluster is under load, only that tenant waits.
Scale testing OpenTelemetry log ingestion on GCP with EDOT Cloud Forwarder
Observability Labs
Scale testing OpenTelemetry log ingestion on GCP with EDOT Cloud Forwarder
Learn how we load tested the EDOT Cloud Forwarder for GCP on Google Cloud Run and identified practical capacity limits per instance. We show how runtime tuning improves stability and translate the results into concrete configuration and scaling guidance.