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Conditional Distributed Tracing

Distributed tracing is generally a binary affair—it's off or on. Either a trace is sampled or, according to a flag, it's not. Span placement is also assumed to be an "always-on" system where spans are always added if the trace is active. For general availability and service-level objectives, this is usually good enough. But when we encounter problems, we need more. In this talk, I'll show you how to "turn up the dial" with detailed diagnostic spans and span events that are inserted using dynamic conditions.

Observability is More Fun With Friends: Stories From OpenTelemetry Collaboration

Panel Guests: Amy Tobey | Equinix Metal, Andrew Hayworth | GitHub, Liz Fong-Jones | Honeycomb, Ted Young | Lightstep The modern open source landscape is hard enough, given the (sometimes) conflicting interests of commercial partners, end-users, and project maintainers. It takes a real, intentional effort to build collaborative relationships across these groups in order to make improvements to projects. In this panel, we'll share stories about what's worked from our involvement in OpenTelemetry as maintainers, community representatives, and end-users.

LogDNA | Log Management for DevOps

LogDNA is a modern log management solution that empowers DevOps teams with the insights that they need to develop and debug their applications with ease. Users can get up and running in minutes, see logs from any source instantly in Live Tail, and effortlessly search them with natural language. Custom Parsing, Views, and Alerts put users in control of their data every step of the way.

Node.js Server Monitoring Best Practices

Node.js is a known and popular JavaScript framework for 2021. With the increasing utilization of Node.js in development, there is an equally increasing need for Node.js server monitoring. Since server monitoring is essential to all applications, it is important that you apply best practices when monitoring Node.js servers. Servers are devices for storing or processing information provided to other devices, applications, and users on-demand.

Instrumenting Java Applications for Tracing with OpenTelemetry and Jaeger

The aim of this article is to demonstrate how you can instrument a Java application using Opentelementry and Jaeger. In this example, we will be instrumenting our Java application using OpenTelemetry and the OpenTelemetry Java client, and the tracing data will be exported and visualized using Jaeger. We will use the Logz.io Jaeger backend as it is compatible with common tracing standards like Zipkin, OpenTelemetry, and OpenTracing.

14 Website Speed Optimization Tips: Techniques to Improve Performance and User Experience

In today’s digital world, everything comes down to speed. It doesn’t matter if you have the most complex and good-looking site if it takes forever to load. There are various reasons why your web pages may load slowly, but no matter the cause, today I’m going to show you some useful tips and techniques on how to improve your website performance and speedand ensure a smooth user experience. But first things first.

9 Best Application Performance Monitoring Tools on the Market and Why Should You Use One

The Application Performance Monitoring (APM) tools make managing your applications simple and easy, ensuring that your business software performs at its best. It's one thing to keep track of IT infrastructure and networks, but it's frequently the applications that demand the greatest care. It's not just the fact that there could be a lot of them; it's also the fact that they tend to update regularly, which can lead to software conflicts and unexpected hardware issues.