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Updated on November 29, 2024

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Observability

Basics

Logging vs Metrics vs Tracing

Logging vs Error Tracking

What is Observability?

Observability vs Monitoring

What is Application Performance Monitoring (APM)?

What is Distributed Tracing?

Understanding High Cardinality

What is Structured Logging?

Distributed Tracing with Jaeger

OpenTelemetry

What is OpenTelemetry?

OpenTelemetry Collector

Custom OpenTelemetry Collector

OpenTelemetry Transform Language (OTTL)

Introduction to OTLP

Introduction to the OpenTelemetry SDK

Semantic Conventions

Redacting Sensitive Data

OpenTelemetry Metrics

OpenTelemetry vs Prometheus

OpenTelemetry Metrics vs Prometheus Metrics

Go

OpenTelemetry Tracing in Go

OpenTelemetry Metrics in Go

Node.js

Monitoring Node.js Apps with OpenTelemetry

PHP

PHP Logging with OpenTelemetry

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