Logs are more than just records. With proper log monitoring, they become the honey that sweetens observability. Observability is your ability to understand and optimize your system’s behavior. Turning raw logs into actionable insights requires the right tools, practices, and insights. This blog post is a guide on log monitoring key concepts and best practices for sweetening your observability.

The Observability Maturity Model helps organizations optimize systems by advancing through stages to improve reliability, performance, and troubleshooting.

Digital businesses constantly confront challenges in ensuring top application performance and a positive user experience. System outages, delays in response, and service interruptions can greatly affect revenue and customer satisfaction. Dynatrace meets these challenges with smart monitoring and automated problem-solving.

At Coroot, we’re passionate about providing developers with the tools they need to build and maintain high-performing applications. Recently, we had the opportunity to help a team using FerretDB, the open-source document database offering MongoDB compatibility with a PostgreSQL backend, significantly improve their monitoring and performance. This is their story.

Learn how OpenTelemetry events enhance observability by providing detailed insights into application performance and system behavior.

Learn how to integrate gRPC with OpenTelemetry for better observability, performance, and reliability in microservices architectures.

Splunk AppDynamics, now part of the Splunk Observability portfolio, provides critical observability for traditional 3-tier/n-tier applications and helps IT Operations teams quickly discover root causes of issues before end-users even notice. AppDynamics complements Splunk Observability Cloud, which is optimized for observing cloud-native applications by DevOps and engineering teams.

Understanding and managing complex application performance, logs, and infrastructure metrics is crucial for modern IT teams. Datadog has become a leading solution for application performance monitoring (APM), log management, and infrastructure observability. However, its pricing and capabilities may not always align with every team's requirements.

The user experience demands a seamless and secure method while logging in. According to a 2023 report by Statista, 66% of users report ditching a website or application due to lagging or authentication issues. Typical users expect the login to be fast and secure, regardless of Single Sign-On (SSO) or Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA).

You may have wrestled with a web application attempting to call an offsite web service, such as an OpenTelemetry Collector, and gotten an odd error with the word CORS in it. Something like: Or, maybe you got a generic thrown error from your fetch statement that states Error: Failed to fetch …and you wondered, “What’s the problem, and how can I fix it?” These kinds of errors are called CORS errors, and they can be a bit confusing.