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Reporting CSP Errors in Honeycomb With the OpenTelemetry Collector
The HTTP Content-Security-Policy response header is used to control how the browser is allowed to load various content types. It is used to control which URLs, fonts, images, scripts, and more can be loaded onto the page. It’s a great defense against XSS (cross-site scripting), clickjacking, and cross-site vulnerabilities. The header can also specify a URL that will be used to send reports on violations of these properties.
Sentry's AI debugger now references traces for troubleshooting distributed systems
Debugging is an ever-present pain for all developers, and that will continue despite, or maybe even thanks to, the rise of AI-written code. Tools like Sentry have been around for a while to help us engineers track and debug issues, but it’s tempting to make that process even faster and easier with some shiny new AI tools. Sure, I could just copy-paste the exception’s stack trace from Sentry into ChatGPT, but what if I really wanted something smart?
A Guide to OpenTelemetry Tracing in Distributed Systems
Understanding what’s happening inside your applications is key to keeping them performing well and reliably. OpenTelemetry tracing is an open-source, flexible solution that lets you monitor your distributed systems without locking you into a specific vendor. reliably This guide walks you through everything you need to know about OpenTelemetry tracing, from the basics to more advanced techniques, with practical tips for troubleshooting common issues along the way.
12 OpenTelemetry-Compatible Platforms You Should Know in 2025
OpenTelemetry has transformed how engineering teams implement observability. This vendor-neutral framework for collecting metrics, traces, and logs has become indispensable for several reasons: Elimination of vendor lock-in Organizations can switch observability providers without changing instrumentation code, enabling greater flexibility and negotiating power with vendors.
Is OpenTelemetry ready for Infra Monitoring?
“A system is never the sum of its parts; it's the product of their interaction.” — Russell Ackoff, Systems Thinker Infrastructure monitoring is an attempt to capture and record the product of interactions between various systems. Infrastructure monitoring comes across as challenging and tedious, often spread across multiple tooling system.
Prometheus Distributed Tracing: An Easy-to-Follow Guide for Engineers
When your microservices architecture starts growing, tracking requests as they bounce between services becomes a real headache. You know the feeling—a user reports a slow checkout process, and you're left wondering which of your twenty services is the bottleneck. That's where distributed tracing with Prometheus comes in.
Breakpoint - The Tracing Issue
This month on Breakpoint, its time for all things tracing! Page won't load? Databases performing poorly? Can't seem to get logged in no matter how many times you put in the right password - dive into all things Tracing and Spans to figure out what's broken!
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How to Configure OpenTelemetry as an Agent with the Carbon Exporter
If you're already using OpenTelemetry for tracing and logs, adding otelcol-contrib as an agent for system metrics just makes sense. It keeps everything in the same pipeline, so you're not juggling multiple monitoring tools or dealing with inconsistent data formats. Plus, with built-in support for host metrics, custom processing, and direct exports to Graphite, it's a solid way to ship performance data without extra overhead. In this article, we'll detail how to install the OpenTelemetry Collector Contrib distribution, and configure it to export system performance metrics to a Graphite datasource.
Correlation ID vs Trace ID: Understanding the Key Differences
You’re staring at logs, trying to figure out what caused that odd error in the middle of the night. Or maybe you're following a chain of requests across services, hoping to understand how one user action triggered a series of unexpected behaviors. That’s where distributed tracing and request tracking—specifically, correlation IDs and trace IDs—are invaluable. It’s the kind of detail that can make debugging faster and less painful.