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Spring Full-Stack Practical Cases
Spring Full-Stack Practical Cases
May 19, 2026 · Backend Development

Why Logs Alone Fail in Spring Boot: Achieving True Observability

The article explains that relying solely on log statements in Spring Boot applications cannot reveal request identities, latency, async task health, failure details, or cross‑service flows, and demonstrates how to augment logs with MDC correlation IDs, Micrometer metrics, and Zipkin tracing for comprehensive observability.

MetricsMicrometerlogging
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Why Logs Alone Fail in Spring Boot: Achieving True Observability
Linux Tech Enthusiast
Linux Tech Enthusiast
May 14, 2026 · Operations

9 Visual Guides to Linux Performance Tuning Tools

The article presents nine diagrams that illustrate Linux performance tooling categories—including observability, static analysis, benchmarking, tuning, sar, perf-tools, tracing, and BPF tools—providing a quick visual reference for system engineers.

BPFBenchmarkingLinux
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9 Visual Guides to Linux Performance Tuning Tools
Linux Kernel Journey
Linux Kernel Journey
May 7, 2026 · Backend Development

KernelScript: A Unified Language for Full‑Stack eBPF Development

KernelScript tackles the growing complexity of eBPF projects by unifying kernel‑side programs, userspace loaders, and kernel modules into a single codebase, using annotations to let the compiler generate the necessary glue code, thereby reducing boilerplate and improving team productivity.

Compiler designKernelScriptLinux kernel
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KernelScript: A Unified Language for Full‑Stack eBPF Development
Architect
Architect
May 2, 2026 · Backend Development

From a 30‑Minute DIY Agent to Harness as the New Backend – What Gaps Remain for an Agent‑Ready System?

The article examines a minimal 30‑minute Agent loop demo, then analyzes how Harness can serve as the backend by introducing a runtime capability registry, worker lifecycle management, diverse triggers, and unified tracing, outlining four concrete design actions to close the gaps for agent‑ready systems.

AgentBackend ArchitectureCapability Registry
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From a 30‑Minute DIY Agent to Harness as the New Backend – What Gaps Remain for an Agent‑Ready System?
Alibaba Cloud Native
Alibaba Cloud Native
Apr 26, 2026 · Cloud Native

Seeing Inside Hermes: Full Visibility into Agent Execution with OpenTelemetry

The article introduces Alibaba Cloud's Hermes observability plugin built on OpenTelemetry, which transforms the previously opaque AI agent runtime into a fully traceable system by recording every reasoning step, tool invocation, token usage, latency, and security event, enabling precise cost attribution, performance analysis, and audit of high‑risk behaviors.

AI AgentHermesMetrics
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Seeing Inside Hermes: Full Visibility into Agent Execution with OpenTelemetry
AI Step-by-Step
AI Step-by-Step
Apr 8, 2026 · Operations

How to Light Up the Black Box of LLM Agents with Full‑Stack Observability

The article explains why traditional logs are insufficient for LLM agents, outlines five observability dimensions—tracing, metrics, behavioral governance, state & memory, and evaluation—and provides concrete, open‑source‑based steps to instrument, monitor, and act on agent workloads in production.

Behavioral GovernanceLLM agentsMetrics
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How to Light Up the Black Box of LLM Agents with Full‑Stack Observability
Alibaba Cloud Native
Alibaba Cloud Native
Apr 5, 2026 · Operations

How OpenClaw CMS Plugin v0.1.2 Turns Agent Tracing into Precise, Cost‑Effective Observability

The OpenClaw CMS observability plugin v0.1.2 solves the hidden‑trace problem by fully restoring multi‑round LLM execution, stabilizing concurrent chains, and introducing granular agent metrics, enabling developers, testers, and operators to debug faster, assess costs accurately, and improve cross‑team collaboration.

AgentCloud NativeMetrics
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How OpenClaw CMS Plugin v0.1.2 Turns Agent Tracing into Precise, Cost‑Effective Observability
Huolala Tech
Huolala Tech
Jan 7, 2026 · Operations

How Exemplar Bridges the Last‑Mile Gap in Observability

Facing the “last mile” challenge of correlating metrics, logs, and traces, the article examines common heterogeneous storage architectures, critiques existing Exemplar implementations, and presents HuoLala’s end‑to‑end solution that treats Exemplar as an independent observable dimension, detailing its data model, SDK integration, collector, and interactive visualization.

ExemplarLogAggregationMetrics
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How Exemplar Bridges the Last‑Mile Gap in Observability
Code Ape Tech Column
Code Ape Tech Column
Dec 19, 2025 · Backend Development

Boost SpringBoot Log Management: Step‑by‑Step Integration with Hera

This article explains why traditional SpringBoot logging falls short, introduces the Hera log platform’s three core benefits, outlines a layered integration architecture, and provides a detailed five‑step guide—including Maven dependencies, YAML configuration, custom field providers, log output, traceability, and console usage—plus performance, high‑availability, security tips and common pitfalls.

Distributed SystemsHeraLog Management
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Boost SpringBoot Log Management: Step‑by‑Step Integration with Hera
Ops Development Stories
Ops Development Stories
Nov 24, 2025 · Operations

How to Deploy OpenTelemetry, Grafana Tempo, and Jaeger with Docker Compose for End-to-End Tracing

This guide walks you through setting up a complete tracing pipeline using OpenTelemetry, Grafana Tempo, and Jaeger with Docker‑Compose, covering Tempo installation, collector configuration, sample application deployment, and Grafana UI integration to visualize traces, including code snippets and step‑by‑step commands.

Docker ComposeGrafana TempoOpenTelemetry
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How to Deploy OpenTelemetry, Grafana Tempo, and Jaeger with Docker Compose for End-to-End Tracing
Ops Development Stories
Ops Development Stories
Nov 10, 2025 · Operations

Build a Low‑Cost Observability Platform with OpenObserve and Vector

This guide walks you through the architecture, deployment, and configuration of the Rust‑based OpenObserve observability platform together with the high‑performance Vector data pipeline, covering log, metric, and trace collection, Docker‑Compose setup, UI usage, and common FAQs for small teams.

Vectorcloud-nativeobservability
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Build a Low‑Cost Observability Platform with OpenObserve and Vector
JakartaEE China Community
JakartaEE China Community
Nov 4, 2025 · Operations

How Logs, Traces, and Metrics Differ—and Why It Matters

Logs, tracing, and metrics each serve distinct monitoring goals—logs capture discrete events for debugging and audit, traces map request flows to pinpoint performance bottlenecks, and metrics provide time‑series health data; understanding their differences and integrating tools like ELK, OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, and Grafana enables robust observability.

ELKGrafanaMetrics
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How Logs, Traces, and Metrics Differ—and Why It Matters
Tech Freedom Circle
Tech Freedom Circle
Sep 25, 2025 · Operations

RAGFlow Link Tracing: GPS‑Style Observability for LLM‑Powered Applications

The article explains why RAGFlow needs end‑to‑end link tracing, introduces OpenTelemetry’s core concepts, shows how custom tracing utilities are implemented in Python, describes the layered architecture, provides concrete Docker and YAML configurations, and offers best‑practice guidelines for performance monitoring and fault diagnosis.

Distributed SystemsLLMOpenTelemetry
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RAGFlow Link Tracing: GPS‑Style Observability for LLM‑Powered Applications
macrozheng
macrozheng
Sep 2, 2025 · Operations

How to Master Microservice Performance Monitoring with SkyWalking APM

This tutorial walks you through installing SkyWalking, configuring Java agents, tracing microservice calls, profiling performance bottlenecks, creating custom trace annotations, logging with ActiveSpan, and using OpenTracing to achieve fine‑grained observability of Java‑based microservices.

APMSkyWalkingjava
0 likes · 10 min read
How to Master Microservice Performance Monitoring with SkyWalking APM
Alibaba Cloud Native
Alibaba Cloud Native
Jul 1, 2025 · Cloud Native

How Alibaba Cloud Function Compute Uses OpenTelemetry for Full‑Stack Tracing

The article explains how Alibaba Cloud Function Compute upgraded its tracing capabilities from Jeager 2.0 to the OpenTelemetry W3C standard, delivering end‑to‑end observability, transparent cold‑start analysis, cross‑environment context propagation, dynamic sampling, and AI‑assisted debugging for serverless workloads.

Function ComputeOpenTelemetryServerless
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How Alibaba Cloud Function Compute Uses OpenTelemetry for Full‑Stack Tracing
MoonWebTeam
MoonWebTeam
Jun 7, 2025 · Cloud Native

Master OpenTelemetry: From Basics to Full‑Stack Tracing in Node.js

This comprehensive guide explains observability concepts, introduces OpenTelemetry’s three signals—traces, metrics, and logs—and walks through setting up automatic and manual instrumentation for Node.js applications, configuring the OpenTelemetry Collector, deploying with Docker Compose, and visualizing data in Zipkin or Jaeger.

Node.jsOpenTelemetrytracing
0 likes · 50 min read
Master OpenTelemetry: From Basics to Full‑Stack Tracing in Node.js
Java Architecture Diary
Java Architecture Diary
May 26, 2025 · Artificial Intelligence

How to Build Enterprise‑Ready AI Monitoring with Spring AI and Micrometer

This article explains why observability is essential for Spring AI applications, outlines common cost‑control and performance challenges, and provides a step‑by‑step guide—including Maven setup, client configuration, service implementation, metric exposure, Zipkin tracing, and architecture insights—to create a fully observable, enterprise‑grade AI translation service.

Micrometermonitoringobservability
0 likes · 12 min read
How to Build Enterprise‑Ready AI Monitoring with Spring AI and Micrometer
Efficient Ops
Efficient Ops
May 7, 2025 · Operations

Why Choose SigNoz for Open‑Source Observability? A Deep Dive

This article introduces SigNoz, a self‑hosted open‑source observability platform that unifies metrics, logs, and traces, outlines its core capabilities, shows how to install it with Docker, and compares its resource efficiency to commercial solutions like DataDog and Elastic.

MetricsOpenTelemetryOperations
0 likes · 4 min read
Why Choose SigNoz for Open‑Source Observability? A Deep Dive
Raymond Ops
Raymond Ops
Apr 22, 2025 · Operations

What Is OpenTelemetry? A Complete Guide to Modern Observability

OpenTelemetry unifies tracing and metrics by merging OpenTracing and OpenCensus, offering vendor‑neutral APIs, SDKs, and a collector that standardize telemetry data collection, context propagation, and export to various back‑ends, with detailed components such as Tracer, Meter, and shared Context layers.

Metricscloud-nativetelemetry
0 likes · 12 min read
What Is OpenTelemetry? A Complete Guide to Modern Observability
Cognitive Technology Team
Cognitive Technology Team
Apr 16, 2025 · Backend Development

Automatic Trace-Wrapped ThreadPool Instances in Spring Cloud

This article explains how Spring Cloud automatically wraps managed thread pool beans with trace-enabled proxies to preserve distributed tracing information, details the ExecutorBeanPostProcessor implementation, shows the relevant configuration and instrumentation code, and notes that manually created executors must be wrapped manually.

InstrumentationSpring CloudThreadPool
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Automatic Trace-Wrapped ThreadPool Instances in Spring Cloud
Linux Kernel Journey
Linux Kernel Journey
Apr 3, 2025 · Operations

How Perf Works: Inside Linux Kernel’s Powerful Tracing and Profiling Tool

This article explains the Linux kernel’s perf utility, covering its architecture, key features such as lightweight event sampling, tracing, profiling and debugging, step‑by‑step installation, common commands with real code examples, and how to use perf and flame graphs to locate and optimise performance bottlenecks.

LinuxProfilingbenchmark
0 likes · 35 min read
How Perf Works: Inside Linux Kernel’s Powerful Tracing and Profiling Tool
Deepin Linux
Deepin Linux
Mar 31, 2025 · Fundamentals

Understanding and Using Ftrace for Linux Kernel Tracing

This article provides a comprehensive guide to Linux's ftrace tool, explaining its purpose, various tracers, how to set up and use it via debugfs, detailed command examples, implementation details, practical use cases for performance tuning and debugging, and a comparison with other tracing utilities.

System Tracingdebuggingftrace
0 likes · 40 min read
Understanding and Using Ftrace for Linux Kernel Tracing
FunTester
FunTester
Feb 14, 2025 · Operations

Debugging, Tracing, and Stack Management Operations in the Rule Engine

This article explains the built‑in debugging and tracing methods of the rule engine, including the debug API, trace operations, stack‑management functions such as caller checks, stack formatting, and thread‑stack tracing, along with usage examples and special cases for controlling output.

Operationstracing
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Debugging, Tracing, and Stack Management Operations in the Rule Engine
Alibaba Cloud Observability
Alibaba Cloud Observability
Dec 30, 2024 · Operations

Alibaba Cloud’s Mint Tracing Framework and FAMOS Diagnosis Earn Top‑Conference Spot

Alibaba Cloud’s recent research breakthroughs—Mint, a cost‑efficient tracing framework that captures all request flows while drastically cutting storage and network overhead, and FAMOS, a multi‑modal fault‑diagnosis method for microservice systems—have been accepted to the prestigious ASPLOS and ICSE conferences, marking the first top‑conference publications in observability for the company.

Fault DiagnosisMicroservicescloud computing
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Alibaba Cloud’s Mint Tracing Framework and FAMOS Diagnosis Earn Top‑Conference Spot
Architect's Guide
Architect's Guide
Dec 22, 2024 · Backend Development

Cool Request Plugin for IDEA: Tracing, MyBatis Function Tracking, and Custom Timing Features

The article introduces the Cool Request IDEA plugin, explains its tracing capabilities for arbitrary packages, automatic MyBatis function monitoring, customizable timing colors, script-based environment manipulation, and provides a Java code example for handling responses, highlighting its usefulness for backend developers.

BackendIDEAMyBatis
0 likes · 4 min read
Cool Request Plugin for IDEA: Tracing, MyBatis Function Tracking, and Custom Timing Features
Alibaba Cloud Observability
Alibaba Cloud Observability
Nov 8, 2024 · Operations

Why Alibaba Cloud’s New Java Agent Outperforms OpenTelemetry in Performance and Features

This article examines the evolution from ARMS Java Agent to the OTel‑based Alibaba Cloud Java Agent 4.x, comparing tracing, metrics, logging, and profiling capabilities, highlighting innovative designs such as muzzle‑check and VirtualField, and detailing the performance, stability, and community contributions that make the new agent a superior observability solution.

observabilitytracing
0 likes · 21 min read
Why Alibaba Cloud’s New Java Agent Outperforms OpenTelemetry in Performance and Features
Linux Kernel Journey
Linux Kernel Journey
Oct 7, 2024 · Operations

retsnoop: Kernel Error Debugging Tool that Traces All Functions and Shows Stack on Failure

retsnoop is an eBPF‑based tracing utility that uses wildcard patterns to hook kernel functions, automatically captures full stack traces whenever a function returns an error, and offers three complementary modes—stack trace, function‑call trace, and LBR—to quickly pinpoint the source of kernel failures, with practical examples and source‑code insights.

LinuxeBPFkernel debugging
0 likes · 9 min read
retsnoop: Kernel Error Debugging Tool that Traces All Functions and Shows Stack on Failure
Sohu Tech Products
Sohu Tech Products
Sep 25, 2024 · Cloud Native

Observability Concepts and OpenTelemetry Architecture Overview

Observability turns a black‑box application into a system by gathering logs, metrics, and traces, using alerts to spot anomalies, then linking trace IDs to logs; OpenTelemetry standardizes this with instrumented client agents, a Collector (receivers, processors, exporters), and backend storage, while Java agents, span propagation, exemplars, eBPF, and bundles like SigNoz or OpenObserve let teams choose between a custom OTel stack or a solution.

Cloud NativeMetricsOpenTelemetry
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Observability Concepts and OpenTelemetry Architecture Overview
Open Source Linux
Open Source Linux
Sep 14, 2024 · Operations

Unlocking Linux Kernel Secrets: A Comprehensive Guide to Debugging Tools

This article provides a thorough overview of Linux kernel debugging techniques, covering pseudo‑filesystems such as procfs, sysfs, debugfs and relayfs, as well as essential tools like printk, ftrace, trace‑cmd, kprobe, systemtap, kgdb, kgtp, perf, and other modern tracers, helping developers diagnose and optimise kernel behavior.

Linuxdebuggingkernel
0 likes · 25 min read
Unlocking Linux Kernel Secrets: A Comprehensive Guide to Debugging Tools
Sohu Tech Products
Sohu Tech Products
Aug 21, 2024 · Operations

Step-by-Step Guide: Integrating OpenTelemetry Tracing in Java and Go Projects

This tutorial walks through setting up OpenTelemetry tracing from scratch for both Java and Go microservices, covering collector and Jaeger deployment, required dependencies, configuration parameters, code examples for automatic and manual instrumentation, and how to add custom span attributes and spans.

Distributed TracingGoOpenTelemetry
0 likes · 15 min read
Step-by-Step Guide: Integrating OpenTelemetry Tracing in Java and Go Projects
FunTester
FunTester
Jul 30, 2024 · Operations

Mastering True Observability: Models, Practices, and AI‑Driven Automation

This article explains why true observability is essential for modern software, outlines its five core pillars, details a four‑stage maturity model with benefits and drawbacks, and provides practical steps—including data collection, team organization, and AI automation—to advance from basic monitoring to predictive, self‑healing systems.

AIMaturity Modelautomation
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Mastering True Observability: Models, Practices, and AI‑Driven Automation
Java Tech Enthusiast
Java Tech Enthusiast
Jul 21, 2024 · Backend Development

Interface Performance Optimization Techniques for Backend Development

The article outlines practical backend interface performance optimizations—including proper indexing, SQL tuning, parallel remote calls, batch queries, asynchronous processing, scoped transactions, fine-grained locking, pagination batching, multi-level caching, sharding, and monitoring tools—to dramatically reduce latency and improve throughput.

SQL Optimizationasynchronous processingcaching
0 likes · 25 min read
Interface Performance Optimization Techniques for Backend Development
Efficient Ops
Efficient Ops
Jun 4, 2024 · Operations

How Huya Unified Its Monitoring Platform with OpenTelemetry for Zero‑Cost Integration

This article details Huya's transition from fragmented, non‑standard monitoring solutions to a unified OpenTelemetry‑based platform, covering project background, pain points, design decisions, SDK architecture, data pipeline, storage, alerting, root‑cause analysis, and future plans, highlighting the benefits of standardization and zero‑cost service integration.

HuyaMetricsOpenTelemetry
0 likes · 13 min read
How Huya Unified Its Monitoring Platform with OpenTelemetry for Zero‑Cost Integration
dbaplus Community
dbaplus Community
Mar 7, 2024 · Operations

How We Built a Scalable Java‑Agent APM Platform Using Pinpoint

This article details the design and implementation of Pylon APM, a Java‑agent based monitoring platform built on Pinpoint, covering background challenges, architectural decisions, trace‑model extensions, tail‑based sampling, Prometheus integration, automatic JStack collection, and the resulting product features for fast issue diagnosis.

APMJava AgentPinpoint
0 likes · 13 min read
How We Built a Scalable Java‑Agent APM Platform Using Pinpoint
OPPO Kernel Craftsman
OPPO Kernel Craftsman
Feb 23, 2024 · Mobile Development

Understanding Perfetto Data Flow Architecture and Reducing Trace Data Loss

Perfetto’s tracing system links multiple producers to a single consumer via shared‑memory buffers, where careful sizing of pages, chunks, and central buffers, along with tuned protobuf encoding and scheduling priorities, mitigates CPU overhead and prevents data loss, enabling reliable observability on Android devices.

AndroidData FlowPerfetto
0 likes · 26 min read
Understanding Perfetto Data Flow Architecture and Reducing Trace Data Loss
Architect
Architect
Feb 1, 2024 · Backend Development

Design and Optimization of Trace2.0: A High‑Performance Backend Tracing System

Trace2.0 is an OpenTelemetry‑based application monitoring system that processes petabyte‑scale trace data using multi‑channel client protocols, gRPC, load‑balancing optimizations, ZSTD compression, Kafka pipelines, ClickHouse storage, and a JDK 21 upgrade with virtual threads, achieving significant performance and cost improvements.

JDK21OpenTelemetryclickhouse
0 likes · 15 min read
Design and Optimization of Trace2.0: A High‑Performance Backend Tracing System
Alibaba Cloud Native
Alibaba Cloud Native
Jan 30, 2024 · Cloud Native

Detect Java Microservice Bottlenecks with ARMS Code Hotspots

During high‑traffic load tests, e‑commerce services often hit performance ceilings, leading to low success rates and high latency; by combining tracing data, CPU flame‑graphs, and Alibaba Cloud’s ARMS 3.x JavaAgent features such as Code Hotspots and Adaptive Overload Protection, teams can automatically locate bottlenecks, mitigate traffic spikes, and improve stability without code changes.

CPU FlameGraphcloud-nativejava-agent
0 likes · 18 min read
Detect Java Microservice Bottlenecks with ARMS Code Hotspots
DaTaobao Tech
DaTaobao Tech
Jan 29, 2024 · Cloud Native

Observability: Logging, Metrics, and Tracing in Distributed Systems

Observability in distributed systems combines event logging, aggregated metrics, and request tracing—each offering distinct trade‑offs in detail, storage, and overhead—and while the ELK stack dominates log and metric handling, tracing solutions such as EagleEye and SkyWalking differ by protocol and language, prompting many teams to adopt unified, cloud‑native platforms like Alibaba Cloud’s Log Service for lower cost, real‑time analysis and simplified management.

ELKMetricsSLS
0 likes · 32 min read
Observability: Logging, Metrics, and Tracing in Distributed Systems
Linux Code Review Hub
Linux Code Review Hub
Jan 25, 2024 · Fundamentals

Exploring BPF LSM Support on aarch64 Using ftrace

The article investigates why BPF LSM programs fail to load on aarch64 kernels, uses ftrace‑based tools such as bpftrace and trace‑cmd to trace kernel execution, discovers missing arch_prepare_bpf_trampoline support in 5.15 and 6.1, and shows that a patch merged into the mainline kernel restores functionality for upcoming releases.

BPFLSMLinux
0 likes · 27 min read
Exploring BPF LSM Support on aarch64 Using ftrace
Architect
Architect
Jan 24, 2024 · Operations

Mastering End-to-End Tracing in Go Microservices with OpenTracing and Zipkin

This article walks through the complete design and implementation of full‑stack distributed tracing for Go‑based microservices, explaining correlation IDs, OpenTracing concepts, component roles, client and server code, database and service call tracing, compatibility issues, and best‑practice design guidelines.

Distributed TracingGoMicroservices
0 likes · 20 min read
Mastering End-to-End Tracing in Go Microservices with OpenTracing and Zipkin
37 Interactive Technology Team
37 Interactive Technology Team
Dec 4, 2023 · Backend Development

Root Cause Analysis of Missing Trace Data in Go Services Using Prometheus Metrics and GZIP Compression

The missing trace data in two Go services was caused by the GoFrame tracing middleware recording the gzip‑compressed /metrics response body as a UTF‑8 string, which the OpenTelemetry exporter rejected as invalid UTF‑8; disabling Prometheus compression or decompressing the body before logging resolves the issue.

GzipOpenTelemetryPrometheus
0 likes · 16 min read
Root Cause Analysis of Missing Trace Data in Go Services Using Prometheus Metrics and GZIP Compression
Architect
Architect
Nov 30, 2023 · Cloud Native

From Monolith to Resilient Microservices: A Step‑by‑Step Architecture Evolution

The article walks through a real‑world online supermarket project, showing how a simple monolithic system evolves into a fully‑featured microservice architecture, detailing each refactoring stage, the problems encountered, and the concrete solutions such as service extraction, database sharding, monitoring, tracing, gateways, service discovery, reliability patterns, testing, and service‑mesh adoption.

Cloud NativeService Mesharchitecture
0 likes · 25 min read
From Monolith to Resilient Microservices: A Step‑by‑Step Architecture Evolution
NetEase Cloud Music Tech Team
NetEase Cloud Music Tech Team
Nov 7, 2023 · Operations

How NetEase Cloud Music Built Pylon APM: A Deep Dive into Tracing, Metrics, and Automated Diagnosis

This article details the design and implementation of the Pylon APM monitoring platform for NetEase Cloud Music, covering background challenges, the choice of Pinpoint, extensions to trace models, tail‑based exception sampling, Prometheus integration, automated JStack collection, and the resulting APM product features.

APMBackendJava Agent
0 likes · 12 min read
How NetEase Cloud Music Built Pylon APM: A Deep Dive into Tracing, Metrics, and Automated Diagnosis
Alibaba Cloud Native
Alibaba Cloud Native
Oct 21, 2023 · Operations

How to Reveal Tracing Blind Spots with Continuous Profiling and Code Hotspots

This article explains the evolution of observability, outlines a step‑by‑step diagnosis workflow using metrics, logs and tracing, highlights the blind spots of traditional tracing, and demonstrates how Alibaba Cloud ARMS continuous profiling and code‑hotspot features can pinpoint slow call‑chain issues in Java applications.

APMContinuous ProfilingPerformance Diagnosis
0 likes · 14 min read
How to Reveal Tracing Blind Spots with Continuous Profiling and Code Hotspots
Java Backend Technology
Java Backend Technology
Sep 27, 2023 · Backend Development

How I Reduced a 4‑Second Java API Call to 60ms with Arthas Tracing

This article details how the Helios scoring API, originally taking several seconds, was optimized to under 60 ms by analyzing Arthas traces, refactoring date handling, minimizing object creation, and improving list operations, ultimately revealing database access as the remaining bottleneck.

Arthasbackend-developmentjava
0 likes · 31 min read
How I Reduced a 4‑Second Java API Call to 60ms with Arthas Tracing
Open Source Linux
Open Source Linux
Sep 27, 2023 · Fundamentals

Master Linux Kernel Debugging: Tools, Filesystems, and Tracing Techniques

This article provides a comprehensive overview of Linux kernel debugging, covering core tools such as printk, ftrace, trace‑cmd, kprobe, systemtap, kgdb, kgtp, perf, as well as pseudo filesystems like procfs, sysfs, debugfs and relayfs, and introduces additional tracers including LTTng, eBPF, Ktap, dtrace4linux, OL DTrace and sysdig.

KGDBKprobeLinux
0 likes · 28 min read
Master Linux Kernel Debugging: Tools, Filesystems, and Tracing Techniques
Didi Tech
Didi Tech
Sep 12, 2023 · Operations

Observability: Concepts, Challenges, and Didi’s Implementation

The article explains observability as the ability to infer any system state from external data, contrasts it with traditional monitoring, outlines challenges of high‑dimensional, high‑cardinality data and storage costs, and describes Didi’s hybrid MTL architecture that separates low‑ and high‑cardinality logs and metrics while linking them via TraceIDs to provide detailed, cost‑effective insight and streamlined debugging.

DidiMicroserviceslogging
0 likes · 9 min read
Observability: Concepts, Challenges, and Didi’s Implementation
ZhongAn Tech Team
ZhongAn Tech Team
Sep 1, 2023 · Backend Development

Investigation and Fix of OpenTelemetry ThreadPool Trace Propagation Bug in Non‑Capturing Lambda Scenarios

This article analyzes a sporadic loss of trace information when using OpenTelemetry’s non‑capturing lambda tasks in a Java ThreadPoolExecutor, explains the underlying cause related to Runnable reuse and lambda caching, and presents the community‑driven patches that correctly propagate context across threads.

BugFixLambdaOpenTelemetry
0 likes · 10 min read
Investigation and Fix of OpenTelemetry ThreadPool Trace Propagation Bug in Non‑Capturing Lambda Scenarios
MaGe Linux Operations
MaGe Linux Operations
Aug 11, 2023 · Operations

How eBPF Transformed Linux: From BPF Roots to Modern Observability

This article traces the evolution of eBPF from its BPF predecessor, explains its kernel requirements, security model, probe mechanisms, performance impact, tracing capabilities, and potential event‑loss risks, and looks ahead to its expanding role in networking and system observability.

Linux kerneleBPFobservability
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How eBPF Transformed Linux: From BPF Roots to Modern Observability
Alibaba Cloud Native
Alibaba Cloud Native
Aug 4, 2023 · Backend Development

Unlocking Dubbo3’s Cloud‑Native Observability: A Complete Guide

This article explains how Dubbo3’s new observability starter provides visual cluster metrics, full‑link tracing, multi‑dimensional monitoring, Prometheus/Grafana integration, and log management, offering practical steps and configurations for building a robust cloud‑native microservice observability platform.

BackendCloud NativeMetrics
0 likes · 10 min read
Unlocking Dubbo3’s Cloud‑Native Observability: A Complete Guide
Volcano Engine Developer Services
Volcano Engine Developer Services
Jul 19, 2023 · Cloud Native

How Kelemetry Transforms Kubernetes Observability with Object‑Centric Tracing

Kelemetry, an open‑source tracing system from ByteDance, visualizes Kubernetes control‑plane events by treating each object as a span, linking audit logs, events, and component interactions to provide a unified, searchable view that simplifies debugging, performance analysis, and multi‑cluster observability.

Kubernetesdebuggingobservability
0 likes · 14 min read
How Kelemetry Transforms Kubernetes Observability with Object‑Centric Tracing
dbaplus Community
dbaplus Community
Jul 10, 2023 · Operations

Why Most Logging and Metrics Strategies Fail – and How to Fix Them

The author reflects on the shortcomings of current logging, metrics, and tracing practices, explains why they become costly and unscalable, and offers concrete recommendations—including log level discipline, structured logging, metric aggregation, and the use of tools like Prometheus, Cortex, and Thanos—to build a more efficient observability stack.

MetricsPrometheusThanos
0 likes · 18 min read
Why Most Logging and Metrics Strategies Fail – and How to Fix Them
Bilibili Tech
Bilibili Tech
Jun 2, 2023 · Backend Development

Investigation and Resolution of Service Availability Fluctuations in a High‑QPS Go Backend Service

An investigation of a 100k‑QPS Go monolith revealed that intermittent availability drops were caused by a memory‑leak in the third‑party gcache LFU implementation, which inflated GC work and produced long mark phases; upgrading gcache eliminated the leak and restored 0.999+ availability, highlighting the need for thorough observability and dependency monitoring.

Garbage CollectionGoPerformance debugging
0 likes · 10 min read
Investigation and Resolution of Service Availability Fluctuations in a High‑QPS Go Backend Service
Efficient Ops
Efficient Ops
May 24, 2023 · Operations

How Ant Group Solves Client Observability Challenges with CeresDB and AI

This article explains Ant Group's client observability system, the technical difficulties of tracing, logging, and metrics on mobile clients, and presents their open‑source solutions—including a custom time‑series database, dimension‑join services, and intelligent alerting—to handle massive data and multi‑dimensional analysis.

AICeresDBTime Series Database
0 likes · 15 min read
How Ant Group Solves Client Observability Challenges with CeresDB and AI
ITPUB
ITPUB
Apr 23, 2023 · Cloud Native

How Kindling Leverages eBPF to Reach 1‑5‑10 Observability Targets

This article examines the difficulty of achieving the 1‑5‑10 observability goal, reviews current tracing, logging, and metrics tools, introduces the open‑source Kindling project’s eBPF‑based trace‑profiling approach, and walks through several real‑world use cases that demonstrate faster root‑cause analysis in cloud‑native environments.

KindlingRoot Cause Analysiscloud-native
0 likes · 16 min read
How Kindling Leverages eBPF to Reach 1‑5‑10 Observability Targets
dbaplus Community
dbaplus Community
Apr 5, 2023 · Cloud Native

How Baidu’s Search Platform Achieves Billion‑Scale Observability in a Cloud‑Native Era

This article explains why observability is critical in cloud‑native architectures and describes how Baidu’s search middle‑platform handles hundred‑billion‑level traffic by implementing low‑cost real‑time metrics, distributed tracing, log querying and topology analysis, while tackling challenges of massive microservice scale, scenario‑level monitoring, and efficient resource usage.

Metricscloud-nativelog-analysis
0 likes · 12 min read
How Baidu’s Search Platform Achieves Billion‑Scale Observability in a Cloud‑Native Era
Architecture Digest
Architecture Digest
Apr 4, 2023 · Operations

Understanding Logs, Their Value, and Practices for Observability and Operations

This article explains what logs are, when to record them, their importance in troubleshooting, performance optimization, security monitoring, and business decisions, and describes how centralized logging, metrics, tracing, and tools like ELK, Prometheus, and OpenTracing enable effective observability in modern distributed systems.

APMOperationstracing
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Understanding Logs, Their Value, and Practices for Observability and Operations
SQB Blog
SQB Blog
Mar 27, 2023 · Frontend Development

How to Build a Full‑Featured Front‑End Monitoring System

This article explains how to design and implement a comprehensive front‑end monitoring solution that captures errors, performance metrics, and client data, covering data collection, tracing, transmission, storage, and analysis to help developers quickly locate and resolve issues.

MetricsWeb Performanceclient data
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How to Build a Full‑Featured Front‑End Monitoring System
Top Architect
Top Architect
Mar 22, 2023 · Operations

Log Management, Observability, and APM: Concepts, Practices, and Tools

This article explains what logs are, when to record them, their value in large-scale systems, and how to build effective log‑management and observability platforms using APM concepts, including metrics, tracing, ELK, Prometheus, and custom tooling for distributed architectures.

APMELKPrometheus
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Log Management, Observability, and APM: Concepts, Practices, and Tools
Architect
Architect
Mar 21, 2023 · Operations

Log Management, Observability, and APM Practices in Distributed Systems

This article explains what logs are, when to record them, their value in large‑scale architectures, and how to build effective logging, metrics, and tracing platforms using tools such as ELK, Prometheus, and SkyWalking, while also presenting good and bad logging practices and sample batch‑log retrieval code.

APMDistributed SystemsELK
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Log Management, Observability, and APM Practices in Distributed Systems
DataFunSummit
DataFunSummit
Mar 4, 2023 · Operations

Full‑Chain Monitoring and Trace System at Huolala: Evolution, Architecture, and Visualization

This article details how Huolala built a comprehensive full‑chain monitoring and tracing platform, covering the historical evolution of observability tools, the company’s multi‑stage monitoring architecture, bytecode‑enhanced instrumentation, trace sampling strategies, and a "what‑you‑see‑is‑what‑you‑get" visualization approach.

MicroservicesPrometheusSkyWalking
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Full‑Chain Monitoring and Trace System at Huolala: Evolution, Architecture, and Visualization
Baidu Geek Talk
Baidu Geek Talk
Feb 20, 2023 · Operations

Deep Dive into Logging Operations and Observability in Distributed Systems

The article examines logging’s critical role in distributed systems, detailing its purpose, severity levels, and value for debugging, performance, security, and auditing, while highlighting challenges of inconsistent formats and traceability, and reviewing observability pillars, ELK and tracing tools, and practical implementation best practices.

APMELKPrometheus
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Deep Dive into Logging Operations and Observability in Distributed Systems
Top Architect
Top Architect
Dec 26, 2022 · Operations

An Introduction to eBPF: Concepts, Use Cases, and Practical Examples

This article provides a comprehensive overview of eBPF, explaining its origins, core concepts, comparison with SystemTap and DTrace, common use cases such as network monitoring, security filtering, and performance analysis, and includes step‑by‑step Python examples with BCC for tracing and latency measurement.

BCCLinux kernelNetwork Monitoring
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An Introduction to eBPF: Concepts, Use Cases, and Practical Examples
Alibaba Cloud Native
Alibaba Cloud Native
Nov 17, 2022 · Cloud Native

How RocketMQ Harnesses Prometheus for Full‑Stack Observability

This article explains how RocketMQ integrates with Prometheus and Grafana to provide comprehensive metrics, tracing, and logging, detailing the exporter architecture, deployment choices, span topology, dashboard examples, and ARMS‑based alerting for cloud‑native message‑queue observability.

ARMSCloud NativeMetrics
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How RocketMQ Harnesses Prometheus for Full‑Stack Observability
21CTO
21CTO
Nov 9, 2022 · Operations

How Ctrip Handles Billions of Logs Daily: Real‑Time Monitoring, Clog, CAT & TSDB

This article details Ctrip’s large‑scale log monitoring architecture, covering the overall Overview, the Clog log system, the CAT tracing platform, and the internal TSDB solution, explaining how billions of logs are processed in real time with low latency, high reliability, and efficient querying.

Big DataDistributed SystemsLog Monitoring
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How Ctrip Handles Billions of Logs Daily: Real‑Time Monitoring, Clog, CAT & TSDB
macrozheng
macrozheng
Nov 5, 2022 · Operations

Unlock Full Observability in Spring Boot 3 with Micrometer Observation API

This article explains how Spring Boot 3.0.0‑RC1 integrates Micrometer Observation API to provide unified metrics, logging, and distributed tracing, showing the observation lifecycle, configuration steps, sample server and client code, Docker‑compose setup, and notes on native image support for comprehensive application observability.

MetricsMicrometerSpring Boot
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Unlock Full Observability in Spring Boot 3 with Micrometer Observation API
Open Source Linux
Open Source Linux
Oct 19, 2022 · Backend Development

From Monolith to Microservices: A Practical Evolution Guide

This article walks through the step‑by‑step transformation of a simple online supermarket from a monolithic web app to a fully‑featured microservice architecture, covering common pitfalls, component choices, monitoring, tracing, logging, service discovery, fault‑tolerance, testing, and deployment strategies.

MicroservicesService Meshcircuit breaker
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From Monolith to Microservices: A Practical Evolution Guide
Efficient Ops
Efficient Ops
Oct 12, 2022 · Backend Development

From Monolith to Microservices: A Real‑World Journey and Lessons Learned

This article walks through the evolution of a simple online supermarket from a monolithic website to a fully split microservice architecture, highlighting the challenges encountered—such as code duplication, database bottlenecks, and operational complexity—and presenting practical solutions like service decomposition, monitoring, tracing, gateway control, service discovery, circuit breaking, rate limiting, testing strategies, and the use of service meshes.

BackendMicroservicesService Mesh
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From Monolith to Microservices: A Real‑World Journey and Lessons Learned