Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

Debugging modern.NET apps isn’t as simple as scanning logs anymore. With services spread out and systems growing more complex, it's easy to miss the bigger picture. Serilog gives you clean, structured logs. OpenTelemetry brings in traces and metrics to connect the dots. This guide covers how to wire up Serilog with OpenTelemetry, send logs to traces, and build an observability setup that helps you troubleshoot, without digging through disconnected logs for hours.

Logs are essential, but managing them can be tedious. They quickly consume storage, slow down your searches, and make troubleshooting feel like an endless chore. Loki monitoring helps simplify this process, offering a more efficient approach to logging that developers can appreciate.

Amazon Inspector is an automated security assessment service that scans AWS workloads for vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, unintended network exposure and compliance risks, helping organizations enhance cloud security, detect threats, and meet regulatory requirements (such as ISO/IEC 27001, HIPAA, NIS 2 and SOC 2 Type 2) in real time. Amazon Inspector discovers and scans Amazon EC2 instances, container images in Amazon ECR (Elastic Container Registry), and Lambda functions.

In the dynamic world of IT operations, a common misconception has emerged: Observability vs Monitoring is often framed as a battle where one replaces the other. At Icinga, where open-source monitoring is our expertise, we aim to clarify this misunderstanding. Observability doesn’t supplant monitoring—it complements and enhances it. The term “Observability” has become a buzzword in the tech industry, often touted as the modern solution to outdated, static monitoring practices.

With the introduction of cloud services and microservices, applications have become more complicated due to their increased layers of complexity and distributed architecture. While microservices clearly offer speed, they also make things harder for the developers and operations teams. These teams need to plan for the reliable and efficient performance of such applications. To combat these challenges, application performance monitoring (APM) has surfaced as an indispensable discipline.

Change is constant, but without a structured approach, it can lead to confusion, resistance, and costly disruptions. A well-planned change management process ensures transitions happen smoothly, minimizing risks while keeping teams aligned and operations running efficiently. Whether adopting new technology, restructuring teams, or refining business strategies, organizations that manage change effectively turn challenges into opportunities for growth.

When I’m on the train to work in the morning, I always reach for my noise-cancelling headphones. Not because the world is too loud, but because I want to hear what matters. It’s a small act of filtering signal from noise. And this got me thinking that, increasingly, that same mindset is becoming essential in how we design and manage digital infrastructure. There’s no shortage of data. In fact, there’s too much of it.

Seeing that VictoriaMetrics products are this popular with engineers worldwide is fantastic: Just a little over a year ago, we hit 10K stars, and with the adoption of VictoriaLogs, the star count now went beyond 14K. We don’t take these GitHub Stars milestones for granted: It’s amazing to see these stats grow organically thanks to the community of users out there who use our products. Thank you so much!

We consistently roll out helpful updates and fun features in Grafana Cloud, our fully managed observability platform powered by the open source Grafana LGTM Stack: Loki for logs, Grafana for visualization, Tempo for traces, and Mimir for metrics. With GrafanaCON 2025 — and the release of Grafana 12 — earlier this month, there are a ton of Grafana Cloud updates to share.