Questions tagged [tracing]
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Are there better alternatives to debug level logs to investigate a bug in a production environment?
Some of our customers from time to time report an unexpected behavior in one feature of our software and we suspect that we have a bug.
The feature itself and the kind of bug is not interesting for the purpose of this discussion, but just to fix…
Enrico Massone
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Where to store application events used to monitor application usage patterns and behavior?
Suppose you have an application and you have an APM platform like Datadog or Application Insights that you use to monitor the performance and the inner workings of your application.
Sometimes, there are application events that you want to record and…
Enrico Massone
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What is a log and what is a trace?
The words "log" and "trace" are used regularly for describing information, written to an external file during execution of a program, but is there a fix and firm definition?
Some examples in my career:
When working for a telecom company, I learnt…
Dominique
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How to add APM/observability/tracing in a monolithic architecture?
I keep reading articles analyzing Monitoring and Observability, or having lots and lots of text regarding how the latter is the extension of the first, or how they are complementary, or how tracing is the next step in APM (Application Performance…
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A request's round trip time monitoring at microservice production best tools and practices?
I've a microservice's system at production which provide an API to the outer world. Along with each service monitoring via monitoring tool ( Prometheus, zabbix, etc.) of course it's highly desirable to monitor every single request's round trip time.…
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