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Discover in-depth articles, tutorials, and best practices for implementing observability, monitoring, and performance optimization in modern software systems.

Compare the top DataDog competitors in 2025: Uptrace, Dynatrace, New Relic, Splunk, AppDynamics, AWS, Sumo Logic, SolarWinds, IBM, ManageEngine, Elastic, LogicMonitor, and Prometheus
Feb 28 2025
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Discover the top open-source log management tools in 2025: Uptrace, Loki, OpenSearch, Vector, and Graylog. Uncover the best solutions for monitoring and troubleshooting distributed systems.
Feb 24 2025
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Golang Monitoring allows you to manage your Golang infrastructure and monitor the performance of your applications.
Jan 18 2025
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Complete guide to diagnosing and fixing no healthy upstream errors across Nginx, Kubernetes, and Docker. Learn immediate solutions and prevention strategies.
Jan 18 2025
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An in-depth analysis of Splunk pricing models, licensing costs, and implementation expenses. Learn how to optimize your Splunk investment and explore cost-effective alternatives.
Jan 12 2025
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Explore Datadog pricing and features in 2025. This comprehensive guide analyzes costs, compares alternatives like Uptrace, and helps you determine if Datadog is worth the investment for your business. Learn about pricing tiers, hidden costs, and how to optimize your observability spend.
Jan 9 2025
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A comprehensive guide to Application Performance Monitoring (APM) for modern DevOps teams. Learn about essential features, implementation strategies, and best practices for effective application monitoring.
Jan 8 2025
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Master Docker log tailing with our detailed guide. Learn how to view, analyze, and manage Docker logs for improved container debugging and monitoring.
Jan 6 2025
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Functional Options is a method of implementing clean/eloquent APIs in Go, but it may be easier to think about them as a powerful replacement for named args from other languages.
Jan 1 2025
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Discover the top Golang logging libraries in 2025, from standard packages like log and slog to advanced tools like Logrus, Zap, and Zerolog. Learn how to implement structured logging and improve application observability with best practices and tools like Uptrace.
Jan 1 2025
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Comprehensive guide to Python logging including setup, configuration, best practices and advanced implementation strategies. Learn how to effectively implement logging in your Python applications.
Dec 18 2024
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Discover how Performance Engineering can reduce costs by 35% and improve user satisfaction by 50%. Learn proven strategies, implementation steps, and best practices. Includes practical guides, tools comparison, and expert tips.
Dec 11 2024
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A comprehensive guide to resolving upstream connect errors across various environments. Learn step-by-step solutions for Nginx, Spring Boot, Kubernetes, Docker, Cloud Services, Proxy Servers, and Monitoring Systems.
Dec 2 2024
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Comprehensive guide to understanding and implementing Single Pane of Glass solutions for unified IT management and monitoring.
Nov 21 2024
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Discover how to use FastAPI to build robust and high-performance web applications. This comprehensive guide covers everything from basic concepts to advanced features, real-world applications, and best practices.
Oct 17 2024
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Discover what full stack observability is and why it is crucial for modern IT environments. Learn how this comprehensive approach to monitoring and observability can improve system performance, enhance collaboration, and optimize costs. Explore key components, implementation strategies, and see how solutions like Uptrace can provide deep insights across your entire technology stack.
Oct 6 2024
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Master crontab logs management with our comprehensive guide. Learn how to check, analyze, and optimize crontab logs for improved system reliability and performance.
Sep 7 2024
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An in-depth guide to Kubernetes logging with kubectl, covering basic and advanced techniques, troubleshooting tips, and best practices for efficient log management in Kubernetes environments.
Aug 27 2024
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Monitoring Redis, an in-memory data structure store, is crucial to ensure its performance, availability, and efficient resource utilization.
Apr 20 2024
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The Uptrace team is pleased to present the latest v1.7 release, which introduces dark mode, revamped navigation, dashboards list, system tracing metrics, and much more.
Mar 26 2024
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Top open source OpenTelemetry backends: Prometheus, Grafana, Jaeger, Zipkin, ElasticSearch, Uptrace.
Feb 15 2024
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The Uptrace team is pleased to present the latest v1.6 release, which adds support for service graphs, Prometheus remote write, Grafana data source for Prometheus, annotations, and much more.
Jan 3 2024
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You can install ZFS on Ubuntu using apt, jonathonf's PPA, or compiling the code from sources.
Feb 3 2023
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Today the go-redis team is thrilled to release go-redis v9, which adds support for the RESP3 protocol, introduces the new hooks API, improves pipelines retries, and allows performance monitoring via OpenTelemetry.
Jan 23 2023
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This article explains how to use opentelemetry-go Metrics API to collect metrics, for example, go-redis/cache stats.
Jan 3 2023
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Golang memory arenas allow to allocate objects from a contiguous region of memory and free them all at once with minimal memory management or garbage collection overhead.
Dec 8 2022
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You probably should avoid `ctx.WithTimeout` or `ctx.WithDeadline` with code that makes network calls. Here is why.
Mar 31 2022
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This article offers random tips on writing JSON REST APIs using plain Go HTTP handlers.
Aug 29 2021
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This tutorial demonstrates how to instrument a basic Go app using OpenTelemetry Go API. You will instrument an example app to measure the timing of each operation along with some execution context. You will also record errors that may happen during program execution.
Jun 20 2021
6 min read
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