Author: Oren Levy

Oren is a senior software engineer at Helios. Previously, Oren was a software engineer and architect at Capitolis, as well as an R&D team leader at Trusteer, acquired by IBM at 2013. Oren holds a B.Sc. in Computer Science and Economics from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

How we use trace-based alerts to reduce MTTR

Trace-based alerts with OpenTelemetry instrumentation 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

Using distributed tracing to identify bottlenecks in your app flows - Helios

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 […]