Observability

This is a follow-up subtopic for main planning blog. Purpose of this blog APM (application performance management) solution is one of key tools in your toolbox for achieving observability. It is involved in most stages that form observability life cycle: Collect Analyse Visualise Respond Integrate Predict Cleanup and Retain Application Insight as the out-of-box…

In my previous post, I have put some food for thoughts around how you plan your observability journey from the perspective of 5W2H. I want to dedicate this post to How and How much elements of the planning. Before I start, I’d like to point out that while patterns described…

TL;DR Key updates: — OpenTelemetry has reached RC for Metrics Logs specification is stable, Logs Beta plans Adding Real User Monitoring support to OpenTelemetry Adding Continuous Profiling to OpenTelemetry Ease of Operation with Remote Agent Management Port 4317 is registered for OpenTelemetry eBPF and more updates OpenTelemetry is one of the most fascinating and…

Introduction Have you ever asked yourself “how do I know how good/bad my application is performing without waiting for breaks?”. If so, this article is for you. Today you’re going to learn how to deploy an Observability Stack for your application using Kubernetes or Docker Compose. Firstly, what’s an observability stack…

We have seen DevOps evolve from a niche concept a decade ago to now being adopted by every tech org. Automation wave has taken over every aspect of DevOps, but it still lacks the intelligence that we now expect with the rise of AI. Future of DevOps looks more and…

There is no software engineer in this universe that has not used print(), printf(), or console.log() for quick debugging. Just take a second and think about the last time you did exactly the same. There is nothing wrong with that during development. However, once the code is live in production…

Recently i was trying to configure newrelic for our application backend monitoring which is hosted on EKS k8s cluster and I faced some issue while configuring the APM instrumentation agent and nri-bundle helm chart for infrastructure monitoring . In this article I will explain a simple configuration and what was…

As much as possible, configuration and management of observability assets such as cloud resource provisioning, monitoring alerts, and dashboards must be managed as code. Observability is mission-critical and should be treated as a valuable addition alongside infrastructure and other services. Observability as code increases reproducibility decreases human error and reduces…

I have worked in IT for nearly 25 years now and I have heard so many buzz words that I can’t remember them all. So many new architectures that would change how the world works. …