Tag: observability

• Understanding Distributed Tracing: A Python Guide with OpenTelemetry and Grafana Tempo (31 Oct 2023)
  Tracing is a critical component of modern observability methods, along with metrics and logging. It is a technique used in software systems to monitor and profile the behavior of applications in a distributed, microservices-based environment. It helps you understand how requests flow through various components of your application and can be useful for diagnosing performance issues and understanding the interactions between services.
• How to use Prometheus for web application monitoring (03 Mar 2023)
  In this post, I would like to show how we can implement web application monitoring using Prometheus. We discuss how to choose some metrics as Service Level Indicators (SLIs) and also how to ensure system reliability by setting proper targets as System Level Objectives (SLOs)