Resources

Guides, tutorials, and insights to help you master observability.

The Backup You Can't See: The Database Backup Blind Spot in MySQL, SQL Server, and DB2

Your observability stack alerts on CPU, connections, and replication lag. Out of the box, it rarely tells you whether last night's backup succeeded — or whether you could actually recover. Here's the backup blind spot, and why it belongs in the Oracle Enterprise Manager console.

Jun 22, 2026

Blog

OpenTelemetry Goes Deeper and Wider: Profiling Hits Alpha, and OTel Heads to the Factory Floor

OpenTelemetry's fourth signal, profiling, entered public Alpha in March 2026, while a parallel community effort is bringing OTel to OT and Industry 4.0 systems. Here's what both mean for closing the last observability gaps.

Jun 9, 2026

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PostgreSQL Plug-in 13.5.12 for Oracle Enterprise Manager: Patroni Monitoring That Survives Failover

Release 13.5.12 adds native Patroni REST API monitoring to the PostgreSQL Plug-in for Oracle Enterprise Manager, so your cluster visibility no longer depends on the database you're trying to watch.

Jun 4, 2026

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Bringing Tintri Storage Into Your OpenTelemetry Observability Stack

A deep dive into the ip-tintri-otel-receiver — architecture, design decisions, and how to run a Python-based OTel Collector receiver that unifies Tintri VMstore metrics with the rest of your observability pipeline.

Apr 24, 2026

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Webinar

Webinar – Integrating Tintri Data Management into Your OpenTelemetry Pipeline

Stop letting storage be a blind spot in your observability stack. Experts from Tintri and Integration Plumbers introduce a new, open-source OpenTelemetry Collector that brings granular Tintri storage metrics into your existing monitoring tools.

Apr 15, 2026

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Webinar

Webinar – How to Leverage Observability 3.0 Through OpenTelemetry

Moving beyond basic telemetry to turn OpenTelemetry data into real operational intelligence. Presented by Integration Plumbers and Edge Delta.

Mar 31, 2026

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The Evolution of Observability: From Dashboards to Intelligence

How observability has evolved from siloed metrics and manual correlation to intelligent, pipeline-driven operations, and why observability in the AI era demands a new approach to telemetry.

Mar 23, 2026

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Simulation Testing for OpenTelemetry: Why Mocks Aren't Enough for Fleet-Scale Collectors

How we built a fully self-contained Rivian API simulator in Python to catch bugs that mocks and stubs miss, and how to integrate simulation testing into your CI/CD workflows.

Mar 11, 2026

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Why Tintri Chose the Integration Plumbers to Bring OpenTelemetry to Data Management

How Integration Plumbers partnered with Tintri to build a production-quality OpenTelemetry Collector integration for VMstore data management systems.

Mar 9, 2026

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The 6 Dimensions of Observability Maturity: Where Does Your Organization Stand?

A structured framework for evaluating observability maturity across instrumentation, pipeline architecture, cost management, vendor independence, incident response, and team readiness.

Mar 4, 2026

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Why a Fortune 100 Bank Chose Integration Plumbers for PostgreSQL Monitoring at Scale

When a global bank needed to monitor 2,000+ PostgreSQL instances across 40 countries, every solution they evaluated fell short — except one. Here's why scale made the difference.

Feb 24, 2026

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The Observability Blind Spots: Why Your Storage Infrastructure Is Invisible to OpenTelemetry

Most organizations have invested heavily in application-layer observability while leaving storage infrastructure uninstrumented — creating dangerous blind spots that extend incident response times.

Feb 23, 2026

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