OpenTelemetry in Production: A Practical Guide to Useful, Sustainable Telemetry

OpenTelemetry in Production: A Practical Guide to Useful, Sustainable Telemetry

OpenTelemetry is not valuable because it produces more telemetry. It is valuable when it helps an engineer answer a production question quickly: what changed, who is affected, where did the request fail, and what should happen next? This guide is a practical starting point for teams moving from basic instrumentation to an observability practice that is useful, affordable, and sustainable. Who this is for This is for software engineers, platform teams, and SREs running distributed applications. It assumes you want vendor-neutral instrumentation and an operational model that works across services, languages, and deployment environments. ...

September 23, 2026 · 5 min · 871 words · Harry Kimpel

Did you know that OlivaNova is able to create application information logs automatically?

OLIVANOVA can generate code for application information logs automatically: for .NET environments OLIVANOVA uses the System.Diagnostics.Trace class included in the .NET Framework for J2EE platforms OLIVANOVA uses log4j

October 15, 2010 · 1 min · 28 words · Harry Kimpel

JavaScript Logging

Today I learned an interesting feature of JavaScript along with Firebug. Instead of using “alert” to display some trace information, you can use “console.log (“my message”);”. Together with the free web development tool Firebug, this information can then be shown in Firebug’s console window. This is extremely helpful when trying to debug some AJAX code. Please visit this website to get more information. Saved my day ;-)

October 6, 2010 · 1 min · 67 words · Harry Kimpel