Marty Lindsay
@marty.co.nz
Contract Solution Architect. Observability. Jazz Guitar. Cats 🐈
Computering in New Zealand.
website: https://www.marty.co.nz | blog: https://blog.marty.co.nz/
Computering in New Zealand.
website: https://www.marty.co.nz | blog: https://blog.marty.co.nz/
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Marty Lindsay
@marty.co.nz
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OpenTelemetry MCP Server Setup Guide
Learn to set up an OpenTelemetry MCP server for better observability and instrumentation practices in your applications
blog.marty.co.nz
📢New Blog Post: Step-by-Step Guide to Set Up the OpenTelemetry MCP Server
Full walkthough to set up the OpenTelemetry MCP Server
📖 Read the full article here:
blog.marty.co.nz/step-by-step...
#OpenTelemetry #Observability #MCP #SRE #DevOps #Instrumentation #DistributedTracing #Honeycomb
Full walkthough to set up the OpenTelemetry MCP Server
📖 Read the full article here:
blog.marty.co.nz/step-by-step...
#OpenTelemetry #Observability #MCP #SRE #DevOps #Instrumentation #DistributedTracing #Honeycomb
📢New Blog Post: Step-by-Step Guide to Set Up the OpenTelemetry MCP Server
Full walkthough to set up the OpenTelemetry MCP Server
📖 Read the full article here:
blog.marty.co.nz/step-by-step...
#OpenTelemetry #Observability #MCP #SRE #DevOps #Instrumentation #DistributedTracing #Honeycomb
Full walkthough to set up the OpenTelemetry MCP Server
📖 Read the full article here:
blog.marty.co.nz/step-by-step...
#OpenTelemetry #Observability #MCP #SRE #DevOps #Instrumentation #DistributedTracing #Honeycomb
OpenTelemetry MCP Server Setup Guide
Learn to set up an OpenTelemetry MCP server for better observability and instrumentation practices in your applications
blog.marty.co.nz
October 22, 2025 at 3:01 AM
📢New Blog Post: Step-by-Step Guide to Set Up the OpenTelemetry MCP Server
Full walkthough to set up the OpenTelemetry MCP Server
📖 Read the full article here:
blog.marty.co.nz/step-by-step...
#OpenTelemetry #Observability #MCP #SRE #DevOps #Instrumentation #DistributedTracing #Honeycomb
Full walkthough to set up the OpenTelemetry MCP Server
📖 Read the full article here:
blog.marty.co.nz/step-by-step...
#OpenTelemetry #Observability #MCP #SRE #DevOps #Instrumentation #DistributedTracing #Honeycomb
Reposted by Marty Lindsay
Proud to see Grafana, Loki, and Tempo highlighted in the 2025
@pragmaticengineer.com survey — alongside projects we contribute to like OpenTelemetry & Prometheus.
Deep dive from @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com 👇
https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/the-pragmatic-engineer-2025-survey-part-3
@pragmaticengineer.com survey — alongside projects we contribute to like OpenTelemetry & Prometheus.
Deep dive from @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com 👇
https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/the-pragmatic-engineer-2025-survey-part-3
October 17, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Proud to see Grafana, Loki, and Tempo highlighted in the 2025
@pragmaticengineer.com survey — alongside projects we contribute to like OpenTelemetry & Prometheus.
Deep dive from @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com 👇
https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/the-pragmatic-engineer-2025-survey-part-3
@pragmaticengineer.com survey — alongside projects we contribute to like OpenTelemetry & Prometheus.
Deep dive from @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com 👇
https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/the-pragmatic-engineer-2025-survey-part-3
What does good telemetry look like?
@dangb.me has some answers here in their discussion of the Instrumentation Score project.
Article - newrelic.com/blog/best-pr...
Spec Website - instrumentation-score.com
Git Repo - github.com/instrumentat...
#OpenTelemetry #Observability
@dangb.me has some answers here in their discussion of the Instrumentation Score project.
Article - newrelic.com/blog/best-pr...
Spec Website - instrumentation-score.com
Git Repo - github.com/instrumentat...
#OpenTelemetry #Observability
What does ‘good’ telemetry look like?
Explore why you need good quality observability data to operate systems efficiently, the value of doing so, and how Instrumentation Score can help.
newrelic.com
July 31, 2025 at 4:57 AM
What does good telemetry look like?
@dangb.me has some answers here in their discussion of the Instrumentation Score project.
Article - newrelic.com/blog/best-pr...
Spec Website - instrumentation-score.com
Git Repo - github.com/instrumentat...
#OpenTelemetry #Observability
@dangb.me has some answers here in their discussion of the Instrumentation Score project.
Article - newrelic.com/blog/best-pr...
Spec Website - instrumentation-score.com
Git Repo - github.com/instrumentat...
#OpenTelemetry #Observability
Have a read of Dave Farley's State of Continuous Delivery report for 2025.
continuous-delivery.co.uk/cd-assessmen...
Nice to see you can't be in the elite 10% club without "Comprehensive observability and monitoring" 😎
#ContinuousDelivery #Observability
continuous-delivery.co.uk/cd-assessmen...
Nice to see you can't be in the elite 10% club without "Comprehensive observability and monitoring" 😎
#ContinuousDelivery #Observability
An analysis of nearly 100 organizations and individuals reveals where the industry excels, where it struggles, and the critical factors demonstrated by the best adopters of CD. Could these findings help you identify your CD strengths and weaknesses, and suggest ways you can improve?
continuous-delivery.co.uk
July 31, 2025 at 4:55 AM
Have a read of Dave Farley's State of Continuous Delivery report for 2025.
continuous-delivery.co.uk/cd-assessmen...
Nice to see you can't be in the elite 10% club without "Comprehensive observability and monitoring" 😎
#ContinuousDelivery #Observability
continuous-delivery.co.uk/cd-assessmen...
Nice to see you can't be in the elite 10% club without "Comprehensive observability and monitoring" 😎
#ContinuousDelivery #Observability
Ad for bug-a-salt fly gun which shoots sodium chloride
June 18, 2025 at 4:49 AM
Ad for bug-a-salt fly gun which shoots sodium chloride
Example 538 of how the current New Zealand government hates workers
June 15, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Example 538 of how the current New Zealand government hates workers
gave up waiting for my Y2K patching medal, so had to make this
May 9, 2025 at 2:32 AM
gave up waiting for my Y2K patching medal, so had to make this
it's always sunny in Wellington
May 8, 2025 at 10:44 PM
it's always sunny in Wellington
looking forward to when read-aloud software knows about tech terms. one needs to read the text visually along with hearing it, to know they mean 'AWS' [not oars], and 'APIs' [not 'Ar-piss] 😂
May 6, 2025 at 9:11 PM
looking forward to when read-aloud software knows about tech terms. one needs to read the text visually along with hearing it, to know they mean 'AWS' [not oars], and 'APIs' [not 'Ar-piss] 😂
It Lives!
I built a Rasberry Pi based TV mute controller for my LG WebOS tv, and I'm sending events to @honeycomb.io using their libhoney lib.
Nice to do a non-enterprise grade IT project for a change, i.e for fun.
I'll do a write up & link to the repo
#raspberrypi #observability #O11y #python
I built a Rasberry Pi based TV mute controller for my LG WebOS tv, and I'm sending events to @honeycomb.io using their libhoney lib.
Nice to do a non-enterprise grade IT project for a change, i.e for fun.
I'll do a write up & link to the repo
#raspberrypi #observability #O11y #python
May 4, 2025 at 3:22 AM
It Lives!
I built a Rasberry Pi based TV mute controller for my LG WebOS tv, and I'm sending events to @honeycomb.io using their libhoney lib.
Nice to do a non-enterprise grade IT project for a change, i.e for fun.
I'll do a write up & link to the repo
#raspberrypi #observability #O11y #python
I built a Rasberry Pi based TV mute controller for my LG WebOS tv, and I'm sending events to @honeycomb.io using their libhoney lib.
Nice to do a non-enterprise grade IT project for a change, i.e for fun.
I'll do a write up & link to the repo
#raspberrypi #observability #O11y #python
April 11, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Reposted by Marty Lindsay
I've been bogged down in writing about cost controls for the past few weeks (current status: 6k words and trying hard to edit down 🥺).. but I took an hour this morning to write up a response to @mattklein123.dev's thought-provoking take on "observability 3.0".
charity.wtf/2025/03/24/a...
charity.wtf/2025/03/24/a...
Another observability 3.0 appears on the horizon
Groan. Well, it’s not like I wasn’t warned. When I first started teasing out the differences between the pillars model and the single unified storage model and applying “2.0” to the latter, Christi…
charity.wtf
March 24, 2025 at 8:52 PM
I've been bogged down in writing about cost controls for the past few weeks (current status: 6k words and trying hard to edit down 🥺).. but I took an hour this morning to write up a response to @mattklein123.dev's thought-provoking take on "observability 3.0".
charity.wtf/2025/03/24/a...
charity.wtf/2025/03/24/a...
It's handy when job descriptions let you know the red flags early on, by accidently saying the quiet bit out loud
"3+ years managing a portfolio of projects (up to 50 at any one time)."
"3+ years managing a portfolio of projects (up to 50 at any one time)."
a man in a suit and tie is smiling and looking at the camera .
Alt: a man in a suit and tie is smiling and looking at the camera, saying No
media.tenor.com
February 19, 2025 at 9:28 PM
It's handy when job descriptions let you know the red flags early on, by accidently saying the quiet bit out loud
"3+ years managing a portfolio of projects (up to 50 at any one time)."
"3+ years managing a portfolio of projects (up to 50 at any one time)."
still a great article from @mipsytipsy.bsky.social
charity.wtf/2023/03/09/a...
I've mostly been a solution architect over the years, but lately have been getting back into the weeds of modern Javascript & MERN stack. good times.
charity.wtf/2023/03/09/a...
I've mostly been a solution architect over the years, but lately have been getting back into the weeds of modern Javascript & MERN stack. good times.
Architects, Anti-Patterns, and Organizational Fuckery
I recently wrote a twitter thread on the proper role of architects, or as I put it, tongue-in-cheek-ily, whether or not architect is a “bullshit role”. It got a LOT of reactions (2.5 we…
charity.wtf
February 8, 2025 at 3:56 AM
still a great article from @mipsytipsy.bsky.social
charity.wtf/2023/03/09/a...
I've mostly been a solution architect over the years, but lately have been getting back into the weeds of modern Javascript & MERN stack. good times.
charity.wtf/2023/03/09/a...
I've mostly been a solution architect over the years, but lately have been getting back into the weeds of modern Javascript & MERN stack. good times.
I've just completed a large Javascript course 😎
I've worked with JS since 1998 but it's useful to do a complete course in a topic to fill in any gaps. Particularly true for #Javascript as a lot has changed over the years.
'The Complete JavaScript Course 2025: From Zero to Expert' at Udemy
I've worked with JS since 1998 but it's useful to do a complete course in a topic to fill in any gaps. Particularly true for #Javascript as a lot has changed over the years.
'The Complete JavaScript Course 2025: From Zero to Expert' at Udemy
February 3, 2025 at 10:10 PM
I've just completed a large Javascript course 😎
I've worked with JS since 1998 but it's useful to do a complete course in a topic to fill in any gaps. Particularly true for #Javascript as a lot has changed over the years.
'The Complete JavaScript Course 2025: From Zero to Expert' at Udemy
I've worked with JS since 1998 but it's useful to do a complete course in a topic to fill in any gaps. Particularly true for #Javascript as a lot has changed over the years.
'The Complete JavaScript Course 2025: From Zero to Expert' at Udemy
Side Projects.
I've done a bunch over the years just to keep my hand in with new tech, or solve some problem, and it turns out there are quite a few so I've started documenting them here.
www.linkedin.com/in/martylind...
I've done a bunch over the years just to keep my hand in with new tech, or solve some problem, and it turns out there are quite a few so I've started documenting them here.
www.linkedin.com/in/martylind...
www.linkedin.com
January 15, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Side Projects.
I've done a bunch over the years just to keep my hand in with new tech, or solve some problem, and it turns out there are quite a few so I've started documenting them here.
www.linkedin.com/in/martylind...
I've done a bunch over the years just to keep my hand in with new tech, or solve some problem, and it turns out there are quite a few so I've started documenting them here.
www.linkedin.com/in/martylind...
Hungry sparrow on car wing mirror wanting my burger. Gave it some lettuce which it chucked on the ground in disgust.
December 21, 2024 at 4:19 AM
Hungry sparrow on car wing mirror wanting my burger. Gave it some lettuce which it chucked on the ground in disgust.
Reposted by Marty Lindsay
OpenTelemetry is often pitched as “vendor-neutral instrumentation”, but I think it could be much more than that jeremymorrell.dev/blog/opentel...
On OpenTelemetry and the value of Standards | Jeremy Morrell
OpenTelemetry is not perfect, but the value of having one shared standard for instrumentation and telemetry is huge
jeremymorrell.dev
December 16, 2024 at 6:10 AM
OpenTelemetry is often pitched as “vendor-neutral instrumentation”, but I think it could be much more than that jeremymorrell.dev/blog/opentel...