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Mike Goldsmith

Staff Software Engineer

Mike is an engineer with a lot of experience working on open source projects, including contributing to OpenTracing and OpenTelemetry. Mike lives in Durham, UK with his wife and family (two kids, two cats and dog) and enjoys watching sports and playing guitar.

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May 4, 2026

Taming Log Noise With the OpenTelemetry Collector's Drain Processor

Do you receive 50 million log lines per day and struggle to see what actually matters? Health checks, heartbeat pings, connection pool messages—they all drown out the errors and anomalies you're trying to find. What if the Collector could figure out the patterns for you?

Managing OpenTelemetry Semantic Convention Migrations With the Collector

This is what a semantic convention migration looks like in practice: not a clean cutover, but months of coexistence where old and new attribute names overlap. In this post, I'll explain why this happens, how the OpenTelemetry Collector's schema processor is designed to automate migrations in both directions, and what we're actively working on to get it into a state where everyone can use it.

What Is Auto-Instrumentation?

Instrumenting your code generates telemetry that shows you how your system is performing, and whether your system is healthy.

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