Posts tagged “opentelemetry”

Get production visibility without the Datadog bill. Free-tier APM setup with OpenTelemetry for freelancers and small teams who need traces, not invoices.

Debug Express.js in production: error middleware, async handling, structured logging with Pino, OpenTelemetry tracing, and dynamic logs.

Compare Tracekit and Datadog for small engineering teams by pricing units, product scope, OpenTelemetry support, and debugging workflow.

Set up Python application performance monitoring with OpenTelemetry. Measure latency, errors, throughput, and dependency spans across production requests.

Instrument message latency tracking in microservices with OpenTelemetry spans, queue-age metrics, trace context, percentiles, and practical alert rules.

Improve service dependency mapping accuracy by finding missing trace edges, stale services, broken context, and fragmented monitoring data.

Practical observability for startups: logs, metrics, traces with OpenTelemetry, cost-saving sampling, AI-driven detection, and CI/CD integration.

Complete OpenTelemetry setup guide. Install the SDK, configure exporters, and ship your first traces in under 5 minutes. Covers Node.js, Python, Go, and Java.

What is observability? Complete guide covering the three pillars (metrics, logs, traces), implementation strategies, and tools for modern software systems.

Add OpenTelemetry tracing to Laravel with verified request, database, queue, and HTTP client spans, plus production checks for trace gaps.