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How to Keep Traces for Slow and Failed Requests

Today we are introducing Local Tail-Based sampling in Kamon Telemetry! We are going to tell you all about it in a little bit but before that, let’s take a couple minutes to explore what is sampling, how it is used nowadays, and what motivated us to including local tail sampling in Kamon Telemetry.

Observability in Practice

After years of helping developers monitor and debug their production systems, we couldn’t help but notice a pattern across many of them: they roughly know that metrics and traces should help them get the answers they need, but they are unfamiliar with how metrics and traces work, and how they fit into the bigger observability world. This post is an introduction to how we see observability in practice, and a loose roadmap for exploring observability concepts in the posts to come.

Two Quick Ways to Create Spans with Kamon Telemetry

If you already had some experience with Kamon, you probably saw Kamon create Spans automatically for a lot of stuff, including HTTP server requests, database calls, actor messages, and more. But what happens when you want to create Spans for methods or code blocks that Kamon doesn’t instrument automatically? Let’s look at the two simplest ways to create Spans programmatically with Kamon.

Announcing the All-new Kamon APM Service Map

Kamon APM wakes up today with a new home page for all your observability data: the all-new Kamon APM Service Map! The Service Map shows a real-time representation of all your microservices and the dependencies between them, combined with health status and easy access to the most important bits of data from your entire infrastructure.

Kamon Just Got a Lot Easier to Use, Welcome Kamon 2.0!

Dear community, Kamon 2.0 is out and ready to roll! For this release we focused primarily on simplifying the installation proces and making sure that the core APIs are more solid and user friendly, since they will be the foundations upon which we will instrument the whole JVM world in the months to come!