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Understanding Observability, Monitoring, and Telemetry Differences

Jan 20, 2025 By Simona Omidkar In Icinga
In the area of IT infrastructure management, three terms often surface: observability, monitoring, and telemetry. These concepts, while interconnected, each play a unique role in maintaining system health and performance. Observability, monitoring, and telemetry form the backbone of any robust IT environment. Yet, their differences and interrelations can sometimes blur, leading to confusion. This article aims to demystify these terms, providing clarity on their distinct roles and how they work together.
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Open source log management tools in 2025

Jan 20, 2025 By Alexandr Bandurchin In Uptrace
Log management tools provide visibility into the performance and behavior of systems, applications, networks, and infrastructure components. By collecting and analyzing logs, you can monitor for anomalies, track trends, and identify potential issues before they escalate. Choosing the right log management solution requires careful consideration of several factors to ensure that it meets your specific needs and goals. Here are the most popular open source log management tools to help you choose.
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Microservices Aren't the Goal: What we Check Before Splitting a Monolith

Microservices Aren't the Goal: What we Check Before Splitting a Monolith

Jan 20, 2025 By OpsMatters In OpsMatters
Most "we should move to microservices" conversations start as architecture debates, but they're almost always driven by operational pain. Releases feel fragile. Incidents take longer to diagnose. Scaling one busy area means scaling everything. Coordination costs grow faster than the product. Over time, we've learned to treat microservices as a tool that you pick to remove a specific constraint, not as a badge of maturity. The most useful starting question is blunt: what outcome is the current architecture blocking today, and is distribution really the cheapest way to unlock it?
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Top 6 Open-Source Jaeger Alternatives [comparison 2025]

Jan 18, 2025 By Uptrace In Uptrace
Jaeger, a renowned distributed tracing system, has been a trusted companion for developers and operations teams seeking to unravel the complexities of microservices architectures. However, as the landscape continues to evolve, the time has come to explore Jaeger alternatives that offer distinct features and advantages.
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The Evolution of Observability: From StatsD to OpenTelemetry and Beyond

Jan 18, 2025 By VishnuPriya In Atatus
Observability has evolved from simple system monitoring to a comprehensive discipline, blending metrics, logs, and traces into unified insights. Today, it is the backbone of modern infrastructure management and application performance optimization. As we move forward, the integration of AI and security into observability platforms is shaping the future, making them more proactive, intelligent, and robust.
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Golang Monitoring using OpenTelemetry

Jan 18, 2025 By Vladimir Mihailenco In Uptrace
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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The importance of understanding and observing an application's middle-tier components

Jan 16, 2025 By Ramkumar Ramaswamy In Site24x7
Just like how the filling makes a sandwich, an application's performance is closely tied to how effectively its middle-tier components function. While the front-end is what users see and interact with (UI), and the back-end deals with data storage, the middle tier forms the vital core where the real magic happens—processing, logic implementation, and enforcement of business rules.
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How to Use Static Thresholds for Effective Alerts in Splunk Observability Cloud

Jan 16, 2025 By Splunk In Splunk
In this video, we explore the concept of static thresholds, which are a foundational tool in your observability alerting solution. You’ll learn: Additionally, we will demonstrate static thresholds in Splunk Observability Cloud. We’ll configure a static threshold for AWS EC2 memory utilization. We’ll also look at additional threshold settings like trigger sensitivity and duration. By the end of this video, you'll have the knowledge to effectively incorporate static thresholds into your observability strategy.
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