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Why OpenTelemetry is such a game changer
[Update with Video] As someone who’s been in the field of observability for over 21 years, helping clients with application performance monitoring and management (aka APM), I’ve seen my share of breakthroughs and changes. But OpenTelemetry genuinely surprised me earlier this year; it’s the revolution that observability needed, a “tool” I believe should have existed…
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Troubleshooting 101: How observability helps you fix issues faster
When it comes to managing modern IT systems, troubleshooting is one of the most critical activities. It’s about identifying and resolving issues that slow down applications, disrupt services, and ultimately cost time, money, and customer trust. A well-established troubleshooting process, supported by robust observability practices, can make all the difference in diagnosing and fixing problems…
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So much data … and now?
Observability is about data, or isn’t it? OpenTelemetry helps us to gather tons of it and then we store it in a nice scalable data storage and all is well. Sorry, that’s not how it works in Observability. Let’s take a look at data and information and see what we actually need.
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O11y Summer C(h)amp 2024
The excitement of the Euro 24 might be over and the champs of football are crowned, but the summer fun continues with a fantastic opportunity to sharpen your Observability skills at Summerc(h)amp 2024. Join us from July 15th to August 2nd for an engaging and informative experience, featuring three live sessions each week and become…
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Whack-a-Mole for Pros
In my 30 years in IT I have seen many things – good ones and bad ones. The bad ones usually had to do with the performance of systems or rather the lack of it. And a few of them stuck in my mind and will come back to the surface time and time again…
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My OTel Journey – Part 2
My 2nd part of the journey into OTel is about logging – how to retrieve logging data from the OTel store. Logs are important to get detailed information, error statements and lots of other things but the real important information can drown easily in a vast amount of data.The OpenTelemetry demo uses OpenSearch as the…
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Performance Monitoring is easy
Finding out if your application or your system is performing well is no rocket science. It is actually really easy -because: There are only 2 conditions – Slow or Failed.It is too slow or it doesn’t work at all and throws an error in the face of the user. Or – superbingo – it is…
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