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· 7 min read
Ankit Anand

"You cannot cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.”
Ravindranath Tagore

Welcome to the 27th edition of our monthly product newsletter - SigNal 27! Our team shipped the much anticipated Trace and Logs Explorer. With the new Trace Explorer page, SigNoz is the most powerful open-source distributed trace product out there.

· 6 min read
NoÄŤnica Mellifera

I recently read this thread in the CNCF slack from someone wanting to send metrics and traces directly to Postgres. Reasonable enough right? After all once your data is in postgres you can query it to your heart’s content. And isn’t the general culture of OpenTelemetry that you should be able to do all of Observability without resorting to SaaS tools?

The thread, however, is pretty universally opposed to this approach; and I have to say that I agree. While several replies recommend SaaS tools as endpoints to receive OpenTelemetry data, and the tools mentioned are great, there are also fully open-source and self-hosted tools that will make your life much much easier than trying to import directly to Postgres.

· 8 min read
NoÄŤnica Mellifera

Kubernetes and OpenTelemetry are both CNCF projects, and both are closely associated with modern microservice architecture. Despite their connection, there isn’t a single cohesive solution to monitoring your Kubernetes cluster with OpenTelemetry.

Large teams that use complex clusters in production have generally ended up building their own tools for monitoring both their infrastructure and application code. See Intuit’s talk from the recent Open Source Summit on how they built tools to easily summarize golden signals.

· 9 min read
Ankit Anand

“When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds aren’t in your favor.”
Elon Musk

Welcome to the 25th edition of our monthly product newsletter - SigNal 25! Our team shipped important upgrades to SigNoz, like new trace and logs query builder. We also attended many events and had a small get-together after months.

· 8 min read
Ankit Anand

OpenTelemetry can be used to trace Go applications that use Kafka to find performance issues and bugs. OpenTelemetry is an open-source project under the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) that aims to standardize the generation and collection of telemetry data. Telemetry data includes logs, metrics, and traces.