The Gotchas of OTEL collector processors for effective observability in K8s
Struggling to make sense of OpenTelemetry Collector processors for real-world projects? This blog breaks down what each OTEL processor actually does, where it matters, and shares real lessons from messy SRE problems like taming noisy data, surviving crashes, and staying under cost limits in Kubernetes.
February 2, 2026 | 6 min read
