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· 9 min read
Ankit Anand

Democratize observability for engineering teams of all sizes!

That’s the vision that drives us every day. SigNoz is open source, provides three signals (logs, metrics, and traces) under a single pane, and is OpenTelemetry-native. And it also costs lesser than other popular observability tools.

· 8 min read
Ankit Anand

As the growth lead of an open-source APM tool, I keep interacting with developers from companies of all shapes and sizes. I recently talked with a developer from a fintech startup in India. The startup provides a payment processing platform that enables businesses to accept payments from customers worldwide. For them, monitoring is critical, but the dev shared how limited they were when exploring an APM tool for their application.

· 8 min read
Ankit Anand

“The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.”
Leo Tolstoy

Welcome to our monthly product newsletter - SigNal 23!

Last month, our team worked on improving the search capabilities across multiple tabs. We also made the logs tab more intuitive by adding color coding in the logs view. We presented SigNoz at an observability-focused meetup and crossed 12,000+ GitHub stars.

· 6 min read
Ankit Anand

In modern microservices-based applications, it is difficult to get an overview of how requests are performing across multiple services, infrastructure, and protocols. As companies began moving to distributed systems, they realized they needed a way to track requests in their entirety for debugging applications. Distributed tracing is a technology that was born out of this need.

· 7 min read
Palash Gupta
Ankit Anand

OpenTelemetry can be used to trace React applications for performance issues and bugs. You can trace user requests from your frontend web application to your downstream services. OpenTelemetry is an open-source project under the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) that aims to standardize the generation and collection of telemetry data.

· 7 min read
Vinoth R.

Cloud has become the de-facto standard for new application development. Kubernetes solves many problems of modern-day cloud infrastructure. It has made microservices-based distributed software systems possible, enabling organizations to provide on-demand scaling. But at the same time, Kubernetes has also increased operational complexity.