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Why My 3AM Debug Session Takes 2 Hours: Fixing the Logs-Traces-Metrics Correlation Gap

Stop tab-switching at 3AM. Wire trace_id into logs and exemplars into metrics so you can pivot from alert to root cause in seconds, not hours.

Gorakhnath Yadav

2026-05-11

What is OpenTelemetry? A Complete Guide to the Observability Standard

Engineering

OpenTelemetry Observability Tracing

What is OpenTelemetry? A Complete Guide to the Observability Standard

A complete guide to OpenTelemetry: what it is, how the Collector and OTLP work, and how to instrument your first service.

Our Alerts Are Noise: How Do We Actually Fix Alert Fatigue?

Struggling with alert fatigue? Learn how to reduce noisy alerts, improve signal quality, and build effective alerting strategies that actually help teams respond faster.

The Prometheus Cardinality Bomb: How to Prevent It Before It Blows Up

Learn what the Prometheus cardinality bomb is, why high-cardinality metrics break your monitoring, and how to detect, prevent, and fix it effectively.

Monitoring Caddy, MinIO, NATS, and ScyllaDB with OpenObserve Dashboards

A walkthrough of dashboard JSON structure, query patterns, and integration architecture for Caddy, MinIO, NATS, and ScyllaDB.

Convert Raw Logs into Metrics with OpenObserve Pipelines

Learn how to convert raw logs into metrics using OpenObserve pipelines. Step-by-step guide to extract time-series metrics for faster dashboards and reliable alerts.

RED Metrics: Monitoring Requests, Errors, and Latency for Microservices

Learn how to use RED Metrics: Requests, Errors, Duration to monitor microservices effectively. Explore dashboards, SLOs, alerts, and OpenObserve examples for real-time observability.

Monitoring AWS Bedrock: Collecting Logs & Metrics in OpenObserve

Learn how to monitor AWS Bedrock with CloudWatch, Kinesis Firehose, and OpenObserve. Track latency, errors, token usage, and model performance in real-time.

How to Export Azure Monitor Metrics using OpenTelemetry to OpenObserve

Collect and export Azure Monitor metrics to OpenObserve using the OpenTelemetry Collector. Build real-time dashboards, query metrics, and set up SQL-based alerts for Azure VMs, AKS, and other resources.

Prometheus Metric Types (Counters, Gauges, Histograms, Summaries)

A clear, developer-focused guide to Prometheus metric types, when to use each one, and how OpenObserve enhances Prometheus by solving retention, scalability, and correlation limitations.

Simran Kumari

2025-11-19

Full-Stack Observability: How Logs, Metrics, and Traces Work Better Together

Engineering

Logging Metrics Observability

Full-Stack Observability: How Logs, Metrics, and Traces Work Better Together

Discover how full-stack observability helps teams correlate telemetry across systems to cut MTTR, reduce data costs, and improve performance.

Raven Welch, Simran Kumari

2025-11-13

Major Product Update! OpenObserve v0.16.1

Release

Alerts Dashboards Metrics

Major Product Update! OpenObserve v0.16.1

OpenObserve v0.16.1 delivers meaningful new features including Alert History for debugging monitoring reliability, Pipeline History for execution tracking, and automatic Log Pattern extraction that groups millions of logs into actionable insights. This release brings significant performance improvements with optimized indexing and query execution, alongside UI/UX refinements that enhance readability and usability across the platform. Teams can now better understand their system behavior, reduce alert fatigue through deduplication, and troubleshoot issues faster with comprehensive execution history and diagnostics.

Jake Swiss, Manas Sharma

2025-11-11

How To

Observability Metrics

How to Set Up Telegraf with OpenObserve for Easy Metrics Collection

Learn how to collect HTTP metrics with Telegraf and send them to OpenObserve: copy‑paste configs, verification steps, and production best practices.

Manas Sharma

2025-09-19

Oracle Database Performance Monitoring with OpenTelemetry and OpenObserve

How To

Dashboards Database Metrics

Oracle Database Performance Monitoring with OpenTelemetry and OpenObserve

Monitor Oracle Database performance with OpenTelemetry and OpenObserve. Collect metrics, logs, and build dashboards for real-time insights.

Manas Sharma

2025-08-28

Docker Container Monitoring with OpenTelemetry and OpenObserve

Engineering

Infrastructure Metrics OpenTelemetry

Docker Container Monitoring with OpenTelemetry and OpenObserve

Learn how to monitor Docker container metrics using OpenTelemetry and OpenObserve. Collect CPU, memory, network, and disk metrics without modifying your applications.

Manas Sharma

2025-04-03

Monitor Your RabbitMQ Metrics with OpenTelemetry and OpenObserve

How To

Integrations Metrics OpenTelemetry

Monitor Your RabbitMQ Metrics with OpenTelemetry and OpenObserve

Learn how to effectively monitor RabbitMQ performance metrics using OpenTelemetry Collector. Master message queue monitoring, track broker health, and optimize your messaging infrastructure with our comprehensive guide.

Manas Sharma

2025-02-28

How To

OpenTelemetry Metrics Integrations

How to Monitor Apache Airflow Logs and Metrics Using OpenTelemetry

Learn how to monitor Apache Airflow logs, metrics, and traces using OpenTelemetry and OpenObserve. Set up Airflow logging, configure OpenTelemetry, and visualize insights with pre-built dashboards.

Chaitanya Sistla

2025-01-22

Monitor Your MongoDB Metrics with OpenTelemetry and OpenObserve

How To

Database Metrics OpenTelemetry

Monitor Your MongoDB Metrics with OpenTelemetry and OpenObserve

Discover how to effectively monitor MongoDB Metrics using the OpenTelemetry Collector. Enhance performance and reliability with our comprehensive guide.

Manas Sharma

2025-01-03

Monitor Your MySQL Database Metrics with OpenTelemetry and OpenObserve

How To

Database Metrics OpenTelemetry

Monitor Your MySQL Database Metrics with OpenTelemetry and OpenObserve

Discover how to effectively monitor MySQL Metrics using the OpenTelemetry Collector. Enhance performance and reliability with our comprehensive guide.

Effortlessly Visualize and Manage All Your AWS Metrics in One Place

Learn how to effortlessly bring together and visualize all your AWS metrics in one place. Step-by-step guide to creating unified dashboards for AWS monitoring.

Chaitanya Sistla

2024-12-27

Monitor Your SQL Server Performance with OpenTelemetry and OpenObserve

How To

Database Metrics OpenTelemetry

Monitor Your SQL Server Performance with OpenTelemetry and OpenObserve

Boost SQL Server performance with OpenTelemetry! Discover top monitoring techniques for seamless database management and enhanced efficiency today

Manas Sharma

2024-12-23

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