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Dive Deeper into your Trace and Logs Data with Query Builder - Community Call Aug 1

This week for our community call we show our new Trace explorer with a GUI for creating queries, custom dashboards, and alert thresholds. Great participation from the community, thank you so much for participating. 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.

Kubernetes Troubleshooting Reimagined: Operators and Auto-Tracing

Kubernetes operators help to simplify, streamline, and automate application tasks beyond the conventional Kubernetes offerings. In this webinar, AWS Developer Advocate for Kubernetes, Lukonde Mwila, will delve into the remarkable capabilities of Kubernetes operators and how to leverage them in your applications. You’ll also learn how Lumigo built a Kubernetes operator for seamless distributed tracing leveraging OpenTelemetry. We will also demonstrate how our operator transforms complex processes into a single command, promising an unmatched user experience and exceptional app health insights.

Golang Monitoring using OpenTelemetry

When it comes to monitoring Golang applications, there are various tools and practices you can use to gain insights into your application's performance, resource usage, and potential issues. By using OpenTelemetry for monitoring in your Go applications, you can gain valuable insights into the behavior, performance, and resource utilization of your distributed systems, allowing you to troubleshoot issues, optimize performance, and improve the overall reliability of your software.
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Best practices for tracing and debugging microservices

Tracing and debugging microservices is one of the biggest challenges this popular software development architecture comes with - probably the most difficult one. Due to the distributed architecture, it's not as straightforward as debugging traditional monolithic applications. Instead of using direct debugging methods, you'll need to rely on logging and monitoring tools, coding practices, specific databases, and other indirect solutions to successfully debug microservices.

Monitor gRPC calls with OpenTelemetry - explained with a Golang example

gRPC (Google Remote Procedure Call) is a high-performance, open-source universal RPC framework that Google developed to achieve high-speed communication between microservices. gRPC has Protobuf (protocol buffers) by default which would format or serialize the messages to a specific format that will be highly packed, highly efficient data. By its virtue of being a lightweight RPC, gRPC is suited for many use-cases. gRPC can be considered a successor to RPC, which is light in weight.

New Logs Explorer & Query Builder

We recently released 🛳️ updated logs explorer page and query builder in SigNoz to make experience of our logs product much more intuitive and seamless. Some of the key features: 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.

Automatic Instrumentation for OpenTelemetry Go

The OpenTelemetry Go project now supports automatic instrumentation via eBPF! This is a big milestone for the project and makes it significantly easier to generate data from your Go apps: The automatic instrumentation agent is still in s/alpha/beta today, but it’s ready for you to try on your applications!

How Novacy Shortened Troubleshooting Time by 90% with Helios

When I first met Uria Franko, the CTO of Novacy, I immediately knew we’d hit it off. He was looking for an observability solution for his team with a specific need around Celery, after they had been using logs but found they lacked the depth and granularity they needed. Luckily, our mission at Helios is to help organizations gain visibility and drill down into services through traces. So this was a perfect match.