Observability: Monitor, measure and analyze your application

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What is Observability?

Observability is the ability to monitor, measure, and interpret a system or application's status by analyzing its outputs, logs, and performance metrics. This data helps to improve system reliability, makes troubleshooting more efficient, enables data-driven decisions, and optimizes overall system performance. Read more

Observability and why it matters

Understand the basics of observability for developers: why you should care, how mature is the technology, how is it evolving. Read more

The Pillars of Observability

Metrics

Quantitative data on system resource consumption to determine if a problem has occurred.

Events

Detailed event logs and system messages that provide a record of behavior to determine what problem has occurred.

Traces

Data on the path of requests and transactions from applications and the environment and helps to determine where in a system the problem has occurred.

Logs

Changes to the Object state to monitor the health of the environment.

Distributed Tracing

Featured image: Quarkus development loop

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Jun 21, 2022

Distributed tracing with OpenTelemetry, Knative, and Quarkus

Daniel Oh

This video shows how to use OpenTelemetry to collect metrics for RESTful,...

Tracing Kubernetes applications with Jaeger and Eclipse Che

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Nov 14, 2019

Tracing Kubernetes applications with Jaeger and Eclipse Che

Gary Brown

We show how simple it is to add Jaeger to your Eclipse Che development...

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Aug 01, 2023

How to deploy the new Grafana Tempo operator on OpenShift

Pavol Loffay

This article describes the new Tempo Kubernetes operator for Grafana Tempo on...

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Aug 08, 2022

OpenTelemetry: A Quarkus Superheroes demo of observability

Eric Deandrea

This Quarkus Superheroes demo illustrates how to capture telemetry data...

Red Hat capabilities for Observability

Red Hat OpenShift

Red Hat OpenShift is the cloud-native application platform that manages your development lifecycle.

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Red Hat OpenShift Distributed Tracing

Red Hat OpenShift distributed tracing platform monitors, profiles networks, and troubleshoots the interaction between components in applications.

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Red Hat Insights

Red Hat Insights continually analyzes applications to predict risks and recommend actions.

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Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes

Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes proactively monitors cluster health and performance.

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Red Hat build of OpenTelemetry

Red Hat build of OpenTelemetry instruments, generates, collects, and exports telemetry traces, metrics, and logs to analyze and understand software performance and behavior.

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Red Hat OpenShift Network Observability Operator

The Network Observability Operator observes network traffic for OpenShift clusters.

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Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh

Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh includes Kiali to visualize the microservices in your service mesh with out of the box metrics and tracing capabilities.

Learn about OpenShift Service Mesh