I’m thrilled to announce that Gartner added Monitoring as Code (MaC) as an emerging practice into their Hype Cycles for Monitoring and Observability and Site Reliability Engineering. We are extremely hyped about this recognition and being listed as a vendor innovating in that space. Since we founded Checkly, our vision has been that monitoring should be set up as code and live in your repository; it must be open-source based and feel natural for developers.

In the previous article, we talked about Distributed Tracing with MuleSoft APIs using OpenTelemetry. In this post, we’ll go through the process of integrating Distributed Tracing with MuleSoft APIs using OpenTelemetry via a proxy server. The purpose of this article is to demonstrate how we can instrument a legacy mule app with open telemetry without making changes to the existing app. Here, we’re showing an example of getting data from a header as well as a query parameter.

Application Programming Interface, or API, is an important element to consider when you design an online product or platform. Well-designed API is equivalent to a well-designed user interface for enterprise customers. When you implement an intuitive and easy-to-use interface, your product can retain and attract more users.