Category: Observability

In today’s world, monitoring your application is more important than ever before. As applications become more complex, it becomes increasingly challenging to identify bottlenecks, troubleshoot issues, and optimize performance. Fortunately, OpenTelemetry provides a powerful framework for collecting, exporting, and processing telemetry data, making it easier to gain insight into your application’s behavior. In this article,…

Semantic Conventions in OpenTelemetry

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In this article, we’re going to learn about semantic conventions in OpenTelemetry and how they are used to make data processing much easier. We’ll also discuss the different types of semantic conventions. without further ado let’s get started. What Are Semantic Conventions? Semantic conventions in general are the agreed-upon meaning of words and phrases within…

Root Cause Analysis (RCA) Using Distributed tracing

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Distributed tracing is a method of tracking the propagation of a single request as it’s handled by various services that make up an application. Tracing in that sense is “distributed” because in order to fulfill its function, a single request must often traverse process, machine and network boundaries. Once we instrumented our application and exported our…

Sampling Traces In OpenTelemetry

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At a scale, the cost to collect, process and save traces can dramatically outweigh the benefits because many of these events are virtually identical and successful. The point of debugging is to search for patterns or examine failed events during an outage. That’s why it’s wasteful to transmit 100% of all events to the observability…

Observability vs Monitoring

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