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Awareness around using OpenTelemetry for infra monitoring is still surprisingly low.

Most folks associate it with traces and application-level instrumentation.

But today, OpenTelemetry makes it super easy to monitor Kubernetes clusters, nodes, and individual hosts. With receivers like `kubeletstats`, `kubernetes_cluster`, and `k8sobjects`, you can collect detailed metrics like pod resource usage, node health, and more directly from the Kubernetes API.

:point_right: No separate Prometheus setup needed. Just plug into the OTel pipeline.

If you're already using OTel for traces, or just exploring better ways to observe your infra, we wrote a blog that covers:
1. How to monitor VMs, K8s clusters, and pods with OTel
2. Whether OTel is ready to replace traditional infra monitoring
3. How to switch from Prometheus to OpenTelemetry
If you are hooked, check out our <https://signoz.io/blog/opentelemetry-the-new-standard-for-infra-monitoring/|latest blog>!:mostly_sunny:

Speaking of kubernetes monitoring:
Any plans to bump k8s-infra helm chart to include a slightly newer version of the otelcol than version 0.109.0?

Hey <@U07H7JC1JT0> thanks for letting us know, we will take it forward !!

You guys are doing an amazing job, keep it up!