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Stories, guides, and lessons from the world of observability

What Are AI Guardrails

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.

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Anjali Udasi

Anjali Udasi

Grafana Tempo: Setup, Configuration, and Best Practices

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.

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Anjali Udasi

Anjali Udasi

OTel Updates: Declarative Config — A Steadier Way to Configure OpenTelemetry SDKs

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.

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Anjali Udasi

Anjali Udasi

Sidecar or Agent for OpenTelemetry: How to Decide

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.

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Anjali Udasi

Anjali Udasi

OTel Updates: Consistent Probability Sampling Fixes Fragmented Traces

OTel Updates: Consistent Probability Sampling Fixes Fragmented Traces

One sampling decision, propagated everywhere. OpenTelemetry's Consistent Probability Sampling fixes fragmented traces across services.

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Anjali Udasi

Anjali Udasi

OpenTelemetry Spans Explained: Deconstructing Distributed Tracing

OpenTelemetry Spans Explained: Deconstructing Distributed Tracing

Understand how OpenTelemetry Spans capture, connect, and explain every operation in your distributed system for deeper visibility.

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Anjali Udasi

Anjali Udasi

Top 11 Ruby APM Tools for 2025: A Performance-Driven Selection

Top 11 Ruby APM Tools for 2025: A Performance-Driven Selection

Explore the top Ruby APM tools for 2025 — from open-source to enterprise — to monitor, trace, and optimize your app’s performance.

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Anjali Udasi

Anjali Udasi

Top 9 APM Tools for Node.js Performance Monitoring

Top 9 APM Tools for Node.js Performance Monitoring

Compare top APM tools for Node.js — from open-source options to enterprise-grade platforms — and choose the best fit for your stack.

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Anjali Udasi

Anjali Udasi

Implement Distributed Tracing with Spring Boot 3

Implement Distributed Tracing with Spring Boot 3

A practical guide to add OpenTelemetry tracing to Spring Boot 3: agent setup, context propagation, messaging, sampling, and exports.

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Anjali Udasi

Anjali Udasi