Tool Belt
A curated, opinionated list of tools for working with OpenTelemetry and brownfield observability stacks. No vendor sponsorship. Just things that work.
Telemetry quality scoring and optimisation. Analyses your instrumentation, identifies waste and gaps, and provides an actionable Instrumentation Score. Built by OTel maintainers.
Command-line tool for inspecting Linux namespaces and cgroups: the primitives that make containers work. List all namespaces on a host, dig into a specific namespace, cgroup, or process, and monitor cgroup control files in a top-like view. Useful when you need to understand what is actually happening beneath the container runtime.
Interactive changelog explorer. Point it at any GitHub, GitLab, or Codeberg repository and query its changelog in plain English. Useful for tracking fast-moving projects like the OTel Collector, Kubernetes, or Prometheus, without manually reading every release note.
Single-binary OTLP receiver for local development. Accepts logs, traces, and metrics, stores them in SQLite, and serves a web dashboard.
Visual editor and validator for OpenTelemetry Collector configurations. Paste your YAML, see your pipelines as swimlanes, catch errors instantly. By Dash0.
Opinionated linter for OpenTelemetry Collector configurations. Catches misconfigurations, security issues, and performance pitfalls before they reach production. Rules are plain OPA/Rego files you can read, override, or extend with your own policies.
Visual drag-and-drop pipeline builder for OpenTelemetry. Design, connect, and export collector configurations without writing YAML by hand.
Interactive changelog explorer. Point it at any GitHub, GitLab, or Codeberg repository and query its changelog in plain English. Useful for tracking fast-moving projects like the OTel Collector, Kubernetes, or Prometheus, without manually reading every release note.