The modern standard for observability in backend systems is: distributed traces with OpenTelemetry, plus dynamic aggregations over these events. This works very well in the world of web servers. But what about the web client? This post describes the state of OpenTelemetry support for React web clients, as of early April 2023.

As technology advances, so does the need for software engineers and DevOps teams to understand the precise inner workings of the systems they create. In 2023, observability is quickly becoming a key factor in gaining success for many businesses. The study states that many businesses are in different stages of adopting observability into their arsenal of tools, and that the need for these practices is on the rise.

At a recent training session, Jeli spent a great deal of time covering incident retrospectives and what makes an incident worthy of studying. My colleague Ben Hartshorne asked a fascinating question, which I’ll paraphrase here: That caught me by surprise. We had a great discussion, and it made me consider approaches I hadn’t before.

Elastic Stack provides many valuable insights for different users. Developers are interested in low-level metrics and debugging information. SREs are interested in seeing everything at once and identifying where the root cause is. Managers want reports that tell them how good service performance is and if the service level agreement (SLA) is met. In this post, we’ll focus on the service perspective and provide an overview of calculating an SLA.

Lightrun, the leading Developer Observability Platform for production environments, announced today that it has extended its support to include C# on its plugins for JetBrains Rider, VSCode, and VSCode.dev. With this new runtime support, .NET developers can troubleshoot their apps against.NET Framework 4.6.1+, .NET Core 2.0+, and.NET 5.0+ technologies.