How we use trace-based alerts to reduce MTTR

Getting our on-call alerts with the complete context covering all observability pillars – traces, metrics, and logs – is a game changer when troubleshooting production issues in distributed apps. On-call shifts are part of every developer’s job – we’ve all been there. It’s 3am, suddenly you get an alert for an issue occurring in […]
Using distributed tracing to identify bottlenecks in your app flows

Leveraging distributed tracing with advanced OpenTelemetry visualization, you can get instant visibility into bottlenecks in your application, so you can quickly and easily alleviate them. As an engineer building a distributed application, every now and then I need to identify and analyze bottlenecks in our system. There can be several triggers for conducting a bottleneck […]