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· 7 min read
Taurai. M

OpenTelemetry is a collection of APIs, SDKs, and libraries that provide an open source observability framework for instrumenting, generating, collecting, and exporting telemetry data like metrics, traces, and logs. It is incubated under Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), the same foundation which incubated Kubernetes.

· 6 min read
Ezz El Din Abdullah

Modern digital businesses have adopted cloud technology and distributed architectures to enable on-demand scaling of resources. Containerization technologies like Kubernetes and Docker have made it possible to handle customer demands at scale. However, orchestrating a complex microservices architecture with Kubernetes is challenging. Monitoring your Kubernetes cluster can give you insights to better manage your cluster.

· 7 min read
Ankit Anand

Curiosity will conquer fear more than bravery will!
> - James Stephens

Welcome back to our monthly product updates - SigNal! Our team shipped some major upgrades to SigNoz last month. We’re elated to share that SigNoz is now available with log management. It’s a major milestone in our journey of democratizing observability for developer teams of all sizes.

· 8 min read
Taurai. M

Monitoring tools are only as good as the range and visibility they offer admins into applications’ performance. Prometheus is a metrics monitoring tool that provides a pull-based system to collect and monitor time-series samples. Once the data is collected and stored, you can use Prometheus Queries to interact with the data: select and aggregate across the provided dimensions.

· 7 min read
Ankit Anand

Change happens gradually, and then suddenly.

It’s time for our monthly product updates. Closing GitHub issues, fixing bugs, shipping code, and sipping coffee, time flies by every month. Last month, we crossed a major milestone of 7000+ GitHub stargazers. We can not thank the developer community enough for supporting us in our mission to democratize observability.

· 8 min read
Pranshu Chittora
Ankit Anand

PHP is a widely popular server-side language and enjoys the top spot in terms of market share. Many world-famous organizations like Facebook have their applications written in PHP. WordPress, which powers 43% of all websites, is also built on PHP. In this tutorial, we will use OpenTelemetry to instrument a PHP application for telemetry data.

· 6 min read
Ankit Anand

Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other.
> Walter Elliot

Every month, our team works on two major fronts: shipping new features asked by users and iterating on shipped features to make them better for existing users. Last month, our team worked closely with users to ship a lot of product improvements both in UI and backend performance. Alongside that, we have been working on metrics builder and log management, two major feature upgrades to SigNoz.