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Businesses rely on software solutions increasingly in our modern age, and it’s constantly evolving. Compared to some of the software being used in the early 2000s, we’ve seen large changes, resulting in more complex frameworks, which come with their own unique changes. As software and systems become more complex, so increases the probability of errors occurring and the level of jeopardy those errors might present.

For any software company, a log monitoring tool is a must for collecting, storing, and providing a centralized view of all logs from different applications and hosts for faster anomaly detection, incident resolution, and troubleshooting. They can also help detect security threats and provide audit trails. They are effective in capacity planning, decision-making, and ensuring optimized performance.

Business continuity is a vital aspect of modern business operations. It is the ability to maintain essential business functions during and after unexpected disruptions or disasters. Downtime, in the context of business continuity, refers to periods when critical systems are unavailable. When such a catastrophe happens, the repercussions can be significant. For one, it can be costly—every moment of system unavailability can result in financial losses.

The right set of professional services automation features can transform your business operations. ‍ Most organizations (97%) believe that business process automation is crucial for digital transformation. 67% of companies use business process automation solutions that improve end-to-end visibility across different systems. While 24% of companies have started implementing low-code process automation systems, 29% plan to implement low-code process automation software shortly.

In this article, we will use OpenTelemetry to instrument a sample Flask app for traces. Flask is one of the most popular web application frameworks of Python. It consists of Werkzeug WSGI toolkit and Jinja2 template engine. Instrumentation is the biggest challenge engineering teams face when starting out with monitoring their application performance. OpenTelemetry is the leading open-source standard that is solving the problem of instrumentation.