How to survive a horror movie (if that movie is your prod environment)
Missing or orphaned spans fragment distributed traces and obscure root causes, requiring fixes to collection limits, parent IDs, and instrumentation to restore trace continuity.
Observability in Java with Micrometer - a Conversation with Marcin Grzejszczak
Master core software principles and coding in monolithic applications before adopting microservices to avoid amplifying design and operational problems.
Monitoring microservices: Best practices for robust systems
Implementing a pre-defined logging format, like JSON, facilitates easy parsing and searching of logs, leading to quicker identification of issues by including timestamps, service names, log levels, and unique request IDs.