talk: Best Practices and Pitfalls of Instrumenting Your Cloud-Native Application
Observability is crucial for understanding how your application operates in real-time. Among various observability signals—such as logs, traces, and continuous profiling—metrics play a significant role. They provide sampled measurements throughout the system, essential for ensuring service quality, improving performance, scalability, debuggability, security, and enabling real-time, actionable alerting. Building observable applications begins with proper instrumentation. While the Prometheus ecosystem offers tools that simplify this process, there are still numerous opportunities for mistakes or misuse. ...