Original Post: Application Security Through the Lens of OpenTelemetry | by Yosef Arbiv | May, 2024
The blog post emphasizes the critical importance of converging observability and security in today’s tech landscape. It introduces “API Clarity,” an open-source project aimed at enhancing API security by capturing and analyzing API calls within a Kubernetes cluster. Initially, API Clarity used proprietary plugins, but later transitioned to incorporate OpenTelemetry, which helped streamline support across various gateways. To further advance security insights, the project also extended OpenTelemetry to collect request bodies. Key takeaways from the author’s experience include the growing adoption of OpenTelemetry, the necessity of request body data for comprehensive security, and the inherent link between security and observability.
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