Posts Tagged "Observability"

There's More Than One Way to Get Observability Right

The specialize-versus-unify argument feels like a religious war. It isn't. Both sides are right — they're answering different questions. There are several ways to get observability right. The way to get it wrong is to never ask which one you're building for.

Continuous Acceptance Tests

An acceptance test run once before deploy proves the data was correct for one instant. The data does not stay correct because the deploy was green. Stop retiring your best test the moment it passes. Run it forever.

Metrics, Logs, Traces, and Events: What's Actually Different

Four observability signals that get thrown around interchangeably. Understanding what makes each one distinct and where they overlap determines whether your observability stack scales or collapses under its own weight.

Distributed Tracing: A Practical Guide

Distributed tracing captures the complete journey of a single request as it passes through multiple services, enabling latency analysis, error propagation tracking, and root cause analysis across complex architectures.

Prometheus and OpenTelemetry: How They Fit Together

OpenTelemetry does not replace Prometheus. They solve different problems, they are converging, and understanding the boundary between them will save you from expensive architectural mistakes.