/tags/open-telemetry/Recent content in Open Telemetry on biancarosa.com.brHugoenTue, 23 Dec 2025 14:48:56 +0000/posts/putting-at-test-how-portable-opentelemetry/Tue, 23 Dec 2025 14:48:56 +0000/posts/putting-at-test-how-portable-opentelemetry/<p><em>This post was originally published on my <a href="https://backendengineeringadventures.substack.com/p/putting-at-test-how-portable-opentelemetry">Substack - Backend Engineering Adventures</a>.</em></p> <p>I posted a little while ago on <a href="https://backendengineeringadventures.substack.com/p/getting-started-with-otel-and-honeycomb">how to set up OTel in Python and send data to Honeycomb</a>. I love Honeycomb, but my requirements for observability tooling on personal projects changed - I wanted to self-host because I had more services to plug in and didn&rsquo;t want to pay a service subscription (because this is all my playground).</p> <p>So I decided to give Grafana a shot. Good for learning purposes since I’d never used it extensively. I deployed the stack (Loki, Prometheus, Tempo, Grafana) on <a href="https://railway.com/?referralCode=sWx4lg">Railway</a>, along with an OTEL Collector, to serve as the central hub. Initially, I used this <a href="https://railway.com/new/template/8TLSQD">template,</a> but I ended up creating my <a href="https://railway.com/deploy/YqPTd9?referralCode=sWx4lg&amp;utm_medium=integration&amp;utm_source=template&amp;utm_campaign=generic">own</a> because the first one didn&rsquo;t include the OTel Collector. I can explore more about how I did it!</p>