OpenShift Logging: A Quickstart Guide with Loki Stack

By Robert Baumgartner, Red Hat Austria, July 2025 (OpenShift 4.17, OpenShift Logging 6.1) In the dynamic world of containerized applications and orchestrators like OpenShift, traditional logging approaches often fall short. Unlike static virtual machines or bare-metal servers where logs might reside in predictable file paths on a stable host, containers are ephemeral by nature. They […]

Service Performance Monitoring (SPM) with Jaeger of your Own Service/Application

By Robert Baumgartner, Red Hat Austria, February 2023 (OpenShift 4.12) In this blog I will guide you on how to use service performance monitoring (SPM) with Jaeger. It should work with any application that is working with OpenTelemetry. This document is based on OpenShift 4.12. See Distributed tracing release notes. OpenShift distributed tracing platform Operator […]

Using OpenTelemetry and Grafana Tempo with Your Own Services/Application

By Robert Baumgartner, Red Hat Austria, March 2023 (OpenShift 4.12, OpenShift distributed tracing data collection 0.63) In this blog, I will guide you on how to use OpenTelemetry with a Quarkus application; how to forward your OpenTelemetry information to Tempo and display it in Grafana UI. I will use distributed tracing to instrument my services […]