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Infinite Retention with OpenTelemetry and Honeycomb

The needs of observability workloads can sometimes be orthogonal to the needs of compliance workloads. Honeycomb is designed for software developers to quickly fix problems in production, where reducing 100% data completeness to 99.99% is acceptable to receive immediate answers. Compliance and audit workloads require 100% data completeness over much longer (or "infinite") time spans, and are content to give up query performance in return.

OpenTelemetry Webinars - Gathering data with the OpenTelemetry Collector

Join Nočnica Mellifera and Pranay as they discuss architecting and collecting data with the OpenTelemetry Collector. We discuss using Apache Kafka queues to handle OTLP data, and why you probably shouldn't push OTel data straight to Postgres. Below is the recording and an edited transcript of the conversation. Find the conversation transcript below.👇 Nica: Hi everybody! If you're seeing this we're starting up we'll get started in just a moment here.

OpenTelemetry - Why it's important?

More about SigNoz: SigNoz - Monitor your applications and troubleshoot problems in your deployed applications, an open-source alternative to DataDog, New Relic, etc. Backed by Y Combinator. SigNoz helps developers monitor applications and troubleshoot problems in their deployed applications. SigNoz uses distributed tracing to gain visibility into your software stack. If you need any clarification or find something missing, feel free to raise a GitHub issue with the label documentation or reach out to us at the community slack channel.

APM & Distributed Tracing in SigNoz

More about SigNoz: SigNoz - Monitor your applications and troubleshoot problems in your deployed applications, an open-source alternative to DataDog, New Relic, etc. Backed by Y Combinator. SigNoz helps developers monitor applications and troubleshoot problems in their deployed applications. SigNoz uses distributed tracing to gain visibility into your software stack. If you need any clarification or find something missing, feel free to raise a GitHub issue with the label documentation or reach out to us at the community slack channel.

How to manually instrument iOS Applications with OpenTelemetry

In this tutorial, we dive into the practical application of OpenTelemetry in an iOS project built with SwiftUI. We demonstrate how to set up the OpenTelemetry SDK, generate spans, and send them to a configured OpenTelemetry collector. Our example application displays a random sentence every few seconds. Each sentence generation process is instrumented with OpenTelemetry spans, which include an attribute representing the word count of the sentence.

The Sound of Code: Instrument with OpenTelemetry - Civo Navigate NA 2023

Join Henrik Rexed in this insightful talk as he explores "The Sound of Code" and demonstrates how to instrument your code with OpenTelemetry for improved observability. penTelemetry enables the generation of traces, metrics, and logs, providing valuable insights into application performance and troubleshooting in production environments. The talk covers the components of OpenTelemetry, how to customize telemetry data, and the importance of context in observability solutions.

SigNoz Demo - Application Monitoring (APM), distributed tracing, Logs Management, Exceptions, Alerts

Chapters More about SigNoz: SigNoz - Monitor your applications and troubleshoot problems in your deployed applications, an open-source alternative to DataDog, New Relic, etc. Backed by Y Combinator. SigNoz helps developers monitor applications and troubleshoot problems in their deployed applications. SigNoz uses distributed tracing to gain visibility into your software stack. If you need any clarification or find something missing, feel free to raise a GitHub issue with the label documentation or reach out to us at the community slack channel.

Diving in to OpenTelemetry data with our new Trace and Logs Explorer

The team at SigNoz would like to share recent developments released this month that greatly enhance the ability to dynamically query your trace and log data. With these tools anyone can explore complex OpenTelemetry data and gain insight into their stack.

Measuring the time between spans in an OpenTelemetry trace with a Clickhouse query

In a recent conversation on our SigNoz community Slack, a user shared their query that asks a deceptively simple question: what is the average time between two spans in a trace? The usefulness of this answer is evident if you think about how often the total trace time does not highlight the time you care about most. This could mean any number of things: that the total trace time of handling a web request might include lots of spans after a satisfying response was sent to the user.