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NextJS - Monitoring your NextJS application using OpenTelemetry and SigNoz

In this video, we demonstrate how to implement OpenTelemetry NextJS libraries for a sample NextJS application and then visualize the collected data in SigNoz. More about SigNoz: SigNoz - Monitor your applications and troubleshoot problems in your deployed applications, an open-source alternative to DataDog, New Relic, etc. Backed by Y Combinator. SigNoz helps developers monitor applications and troubleshoot problems in their deployed applications. SigNoz uses distributed tracing to gain visibility into your software stack.

Elixir - Monitor your Elixir Application with OpenTelemetry and SigNoz

SigNoz provides query and visualization capabilities for the end-user and comes with out-of-box charts for application metrics and traces. Now let’s get down to how to implement OpenTelemetry in your Elixir application. More about SigNoz: SigNoz - Monitor your applications and troubleshoot problems in your deployed applications, an open-source alternative to DataDog, New Relic, etc. Backed by Y Combinator.

How to send logs to Grafana Loki with the OpenTelemetry Collector using Fluent Forward and Filelog receivers

In this guide, we’ll set up an OpenTelemetry Collector that collects logs and sends them to Grafana Loki running in Grafana Cloud. We will consider two examples for sending logs to Loki via OpenTelemetry Collector. The first one shows how to collect container logs with a Fluent Forward receiver. The second one shows how to collect system logs with a Filelog receiver.

Ruby - Tracing a Ruby application with OpenTelemetry for performance monitoring

Tracing your application can give the much needed context required to troubleshoot performance issues. OpenTelemetry is an open-source project that can help you to set up an observability framework for your cloud-native applications. In this tutorial, we will use SigNoz as our backend analysis tool. SigNoz is a full-stack open-source APM tool that can be used for storing and visualizing the telemetry data collected with OpenTelemetry. It is built natively on OpenTelemetry and works on the OTLP data formats.

NestJS - Monitoring your NestJS Application using OpenTelemetry and SigNoz

Monitoring your NestJS application is critical for performance management. But setting up monitoring for NestJS applications can get cumbersome requiring multiple libraries and patterns. That's where OpenTelemetry comes in. In this tutorial, we will use SigNoz as a backend. SigNoz is an open-source APM tool that can be used for both metrics and distributed tracing. Let's get started and see how to use OpenTelemetry for a NestJS application.

Getting Started with OpenTelemetry for Observability

This article was published in The New Stack. For most developers, software development means there is an API for almost everything, hardware is provisioned via the cloud and the core focus is on building only the features most crucial to your business. Of course, all these integrations and modern distributed architectures create their own set of problems. Having full insight into your application has become even more important and is now commonly known as observability.

Filtering Metrics with the observIQ OpenTelemetry Collector

In this post, we will address the common monitoring use case of filtering metrics within the observIQ OpenTelemetry (OTEL) collector. Whether the metrics are deemed unnecessary, or they are filtered for security concerns, the process is fairly straightforward. For our sample environment, we will use MySQL on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8. The destination exporter will be to Google Cloud Operations, but the process is exporter agnostic.