Tracing | John Nessime

Instrument Once, Export Anywhere: OpenTelemetry on AWS With ADOT

Post category:Cloud Computing DevOps Monitoring

A pipeline that returns 200 is not a pipeline that works. The four decisions behind running OpenTelemetry on AWS with ADOT, the CloudWatch OTLP endpoint limits that drop data without erroring, and how to catch the failures before a colleague does.

Metrics, Logs and Traces: What Each One Answers

Post category:DevOps System Administration Web Performance

Metrics tell you that something is wrong. Traces tell you where. Logs tell you why. Use them in that order and each step narrows the search — start with logs and you are grepping a firehose. Here is what each one is actually for, and the field that connects all three.