Telemetry
7 items tagged with "telemetry"
Best Practices4
OpenTelemetry Semantic Conventions
Standardized names and attributes for telemetry (spans, metrics, logs) so observability data is consistent and portable across tools and languages.
Structured Logging
Emitting logs as machine-parseable key-value records (typically JSON) with consistent fields, so logs can be searched, filtered, and correlated at scale.
Distributed Tracing Best Practices
Techniques for instrumenting and propagating trace context across services so requests can be followed end-to-end, with sampling and span design that aid debugging.
Observability-Driven Development
Building instrumentation into software as a first-class part of development so engineers can ask new questions of production behavior without shipping new code.
FAQs2
What is the difference between observability and monitoring?
Monitoring is collecting and alerting on predefined metrics and checks—it answers known questions like 'is CPU above 90%?' Observability is the broade...
What are the three pillars of observability?
The three pillars of observability are metrics, logs, and traces. Metrics are numeric time-series data, such as request rate or error count, that are ...