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Auto instrumentation might sound like something from a music studio, but it's one of the most powerful tools in a developer's arsenal for gaining visibility into applications without tedious manual code additions. If you're tired of littering your codebase with custom traces and want a more elegant solution, you're in the right place.

Have you ever watched your JavaScript app fail in production and wondered, “What just happened?” OpenTelemetry JavaScript helps answer that question, in a practical way to track what’s going on under the hood. Let’s walk through how it works, why it’s useful, and how to set it up without unnecessary complexity. If you've ever struggled with vague logs and slow API calls, this is for you.

Last week, the FinOps Foundation released its latest installment of the State of FinOps report. This year’s theme: Cloud+. Fortunately for all of us, Cloud+ isn’t yet another streaming service to add to an already infinite list. In the FinOps Foundation’s parlance, Cloud+ refers to all the non-public-cloud spending — e.g., SaaS, AI — that you’d want to group under the broad umbrella of “cloud spending.”

In today’s rapidly evolving technological landscape, observability has become essential for supporting robust, efficient systems. According to Gartner’s report “Preparing for the Future of Observability” from September 2024, OpenTelemetry (OTEL) is emerging as the standard framework for collecting telemetry data across different application pipelines.

The cloud landscape is evolving, and at Civo, we are committed to pushing boundaries and reimagining cloud infrastructure. At our recent Civo Navigate event in San Francisco, we unveiled a significant step forward in this mission—Civo FlexCore, a game-changing private cloud solution designed to bring the simplicity and efficiency of the public cloud to on-premises environments. For too long, enterprises have struggled with the limitations and costs imposed by hyperscale cloud providers.

With Render’s announcement this week of their new webhook integrations triggered by Render events, I wanted to explore how the integration between Render and Checkly can help ensure more reliable production services for your users. Render is a cloud application platform that enables developers to deploy and scale their apps without needing to manage infrastructure.

Visual Studio App Center is officially retiring at the end of March 2025. Now is the ideal time to upgrade your mobile app builds to CircleCI, the leading CI/CD platform trusted by thousands of mobile developers worldwide. Start building for free.

As part of Atlassian’s ongoing investment in security, we’re introducing new controls to help administrators manage authentication tokens more effectively and securely. To reduce the risk of long-lived credentials becoming security vulnerabilities, all newly created access tokens in Bitbucket will require an expiry duration, as determined by the workplace admin.