observability

Stop lighting money on fire: Seven tips to improve developer productivity

Oct 27, 2021 development productivity observability

Software engineering teams are a critical component of many companies, where the effectiveness of these teams can have a significant impact on the company's success. Making investments in areas such as these in improving developer productivity will pay off significantly, giving development teams more time to focus on …

Testing OpenTelemetry JVM instrumentation with Kotlin

Jun 29, 2021 OpenTelemetry observability Kotlin testing

The OpenTelemetry Java instrumentation agent automatically instruments many common frameworks but there are times you may want to customize your application's telemetry by adding your own custom spans, adding attributes to existing spans, etc. In that case, it can be helpful to verify the custom instrumentation through …

First steps into observability with OpenTelemetry, Honeycomb, and Kotlin

Jun 6, 2021 OpenTelemetry Honeycomb observability Kotlin

In this post we'll go through my initial journey to add observability to the Projektor test reporting app using OpenTelemetry and Honeycomb. Projektor already has traditional monitoring with metrics around p95 response times for each REST endpoint, counters for successful and failed operations, etc. But I was intrigued …