OTEL in Practice: Filtering & Parsing Data with the OTel Collector

Filtering and parsing data with the OpenTelemetry Collector: a beginner's guide. Not all data comes out perfect from OpenTelemetry instrumentation, but rather than mucking with it in your datastore, the collector can can filter, sort, compress, and parse data before it's sent. Nočnica shows you how to do basic log and metrics transformations within the collector.
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