Top 9 Web Application Performance Monitoring Tools for 2025
Explore 2025’s top APM tools — from open-source stacks to enterprise platforms — and see how each helps you monitor smarter.
Build Your Kubernetes Monitoring Foundation with kube-prometheus-stack
Set up production-grade Kubernetes monitoring with kube-prometheus-stack using Prometheus, Grafana, and Alertmanager.
OTel Updates: OpenTelemetry eBPF Instrumentation (OBI) Hits Alpha
OpenTelemetry eBPF Instrumentation (OBI) is now in alpha, bringing protocol-level telemetry capture without code changes or restarts.
OpenTelemetry Metrics in Quarkus Explained
Understand how to enable, export, and extend OpenTelemetry metrics in your Quarkus application with practical examples.
How Prometheus Exporters Work With OpenTelemetry
Learn how Prometheus exporters expose OTLP metrics in Prometheus format, making it easier to scrape OpenTelemetry data.
What Are AI Guardrails
Learn the core concepts of AI guardrails and how they create safer, more reliable, and well-structured AI systems in production.
Grafana Tempo: Setup, Configuration, and Best Practices
A practical guide to setting up Grafana Tempo, configuring key components, and understanding how to use tracing across your services.
OTel Updates: Declarative Config — A Steadier Way to Configure OpenTelemetry SDKs
Declarative Config brings structure to OTel SDKs with clean, rule-based settings that stay consistent across every environment.
Sidecar or Agent for OpenTelemetry: How to Decide
Sidecar or agent? See when per-service isolation beats node-level efficiency, and how gateways fit into a scalable OTel pipeline.