DevOps – Jessitron

Run the OpenTelemetry Collector in Kubernetes for Front-End Tracing

October 22, 2024August 22, 2022 by jessitron

TL;DR: Run the OpenTelemetry Collector helm chart with –values=values.yaml pointing to the values.yaml in this gist. Use kubectl get services to find the collector’s URL. The rest of this blog post walks through the whole process of setting this up. This will teach you the why and how of each step, so that you can adjust it to your needs. There’s also … Read moreRun the OpenTelemetry Collector in Kubernetes for Front-End Tracing

Five Measurements You Should Make and Then Ignore (Plus One to Watch Intently)

April 23, 2022April 23, 2022 by jessitron

Are we succeeding as a software team?Well, if our job were feature delivery, we could look at the parade of JIRA tickets in our “complete” column. That is only part of our job, though.The purpose of a software team is to provide valued capabilities to customers, internal or external. To do that, our software has … Read moreFive Measurements You Should Make and Then Ignore (Plus One to Watch Intently)

Three Easy Ways to Use Distributed Traces

June 14, 2021June 14, 2021 by jessitron

What is happening in production? Distributed tracing can help you find out. But it’s one thing to instrument, another to use it. Here’s a short (6m) video that asks “Why is this so slow?” See three quick ways to get answers in Honeycomb. If you want to follow along and play with the same data … Read moreThree Easy Ways to Use Distributed Traces