The aim of this article is to demonstrate how you can instrument a Java application using Opentelementry and Jaeger. In this example, we will be instrumenting our Java application using OpenTelemetry and the OpenTelemetry Java client, and the tracing data will be exported and visualized using Jaeger. We will use the Logz.io Jaeger backend as it is compatible with common tracing standards like Zipkin, OpenTelemetry, and OpenTracing.

In today’s digital world, everything comes down to speed. It doesn’t matter if you have the most complex and good-looking site if it takes forever to load. There are various reasons why your web pages may load slowly, but no matter the cause, today I’m going to show you some useful tips and techniques on how to improve your website performance and speedand ensure a smooth user experience. But first things first.

If you want to automatically send Apache Kafka messages to an Email recipient or a Slack channel, it is very easy to do with our new Software Bots.

The Application Performance Monitoring (APM) tools make managing your applications simple and easy, ensuring that your business software performs at its best. It's one thing to keep track of IT infrastructure and networks, but it's frequently the applications that demand the greatest care. It's not just the fact that there could be a lot of them; it's also the fact that they tend to update regularly, which can lead to software conflicts and unexpected hardware issues.

We’ve come to the end of the Dashboard Server Learning Path. In this final instalment, let’s take a look at the remaining two tiles – the Image tile and the Web Content tile. We’ll start with the image tile first.

The effects of remote work go beyond an employee trying to remain productive and stay connected to their team. The organization’s IT team must deal with a host of challenges that stem from trying to keep everyone effectively connected to a network when there are things such as different internet service providers and routing paths to contend with. Another challenge faced by IT is the influx of ‘poor call quality issues because of the varying internet connections, equipment setups, etc.

Enterprise workflow automation solutions can support your team’s efforts to streamline processes and deliver an improved customer experience. If you’re currently trying to fix a disconnected customer experience, you should focus on finding ways to automate your enterprise workflow. We believe this is the key to enhancing the customer experience. In this guide, we are going to be considering 5 potential ways to improve enterprise workflow.

Welcome to the second edition of Open Source Matters: our regular publication about the latest happenings in open source! Let’s dive into the news.

Kubernetes workloads are highly dynamic, ephemeral, and are deployed on a distributed and agile infrastructure. Application developers, DevOps teams, and site reliability engineers (SREs) often require better visibility of their different microservices, what their dependencies are, how they are interconnected, and which other clients and applications access them. This makes Kubernetes observability challenges unique.

In a live, unscripted “ask me anything” session, a group of JFrog product leaders candidly answered questions from swampUP attendees, with topics ranging from newly-announced JFrog products and capabilities to current cybersecurity concerns that impact DevOps teams. Because the lively discussion yielded so many great questions and answers, we’ve put together here a summary of the session.