Improving MongoDB Observability with Spring Data
How we improved MongoDB tracing spans in Spring Data by adding a custom command listener to surface query details while keeping sensitive values sanitized.
Observability
Getting Observability Right with Spring AI and WebFlux
How I got observability working in my reactive Spring AI app using WebFlux, after hours debugging tracing and context propagation issues.
Fixing Tracing Propagation in Spring WebFlux in One Line
Upgrading to Spring Boot 3.2 revealed tracing issues in a WebFlux service. A single line of code fixed broken span propagation and improved debugging.
Spring Boot 3 Upgrade Lost 90% of Our Distributed Traces
After upgrading Spring Boot version to 3.3.1 we noticed that 90% of our distributed tracing in our observability tool were gone. In this post we tell the story
Spring Sleuth to Micrometer Migration in Spring Boot 3
Spring Sleuth was removed in Spring Boot version 3 in favor of Micrometer and I recently migrated many services and want to share the learnings with you.
Learnings from the book Mastering Distributed Tracing
These are my learnings from the book Mastering Distributed Tracing: Analyzing Performance in Microservices and Complex Systems
Learnings from the book Distributed Tracing in Practice
These are my learnings from the book Distributed Tracing in Practice: Instrumenting, Analyzing, and Debugging Microservices
Observability Basics
Learn what is Observability and the basic signals that allow a system to be observable
Choosing Service Level Objectives (SLOs): Google's Lessons
Learn from the mistakes and experience of Google’s team how to choose the Service Level Objectives (SLOs) for your services