October 10, 2018
In another article, we dove into OpenTracing and OpenCensus to look more into the mechanics of how tracing works. Although we will be using different backends for our tracing, our demo application will use OpenTracing at its core. These examples will be using the Go Programming Language and the OpenTracing Go API, but you do not need to understand it in order to follow along with the examples.
September 27, 2018
In the push to make the web more accessible, performance is key. Websites are becoming bigger and more complex than ever before, placing a toll on both servers and clients. However, website performance is vital to attracting and keeping users engaged. In this article, we’ll explain why web application performance is important and how you can analyze it and troubleshoot problems using SolarWinds® cloud monitoring solutions.
September 25, 2018
While standard logging and metrics collection approaches give us an understanding of our application from a single vantage point, it is less useful for understanding the flow of execution and data through our applications, especially across network boundaries. Tracing completes our view of application health. There are several standards for distributed tracing, including OpenTracing and Open Census. We’ll describe these two open source standards and show how to use OpenTracing with SolarWinds® AppOptics™.
