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Ignoring Health Check Endpoints from Metrics and Traces

Your liveness and readiness HTTP endpoints can generate a bunch of useless Spans and can mess with your latency metrics. On this post we'll learn how to configure Kamon Telemetry to completely ignore these enpoints for good.

How to Keep Traces for Slow and Failed Requests

In this article we explore three ways to keep traces for slow and failed requests, including a newly-introduced Local Tail Sampler in Kamon Telemetry

Observability in Practice

Let's explore the idea of observability from a practical point of view, focusing on the three jobs that any observability platform needs to help you get done: instrumentation, monitoring, and debugging

Two Quick Ways to Create Spans with Kamon Telemetry

Learn how to create Spans programmatically using Kamon Telemetry's helper functions and annotations.

Monitoring Queues and Resources with Kamon Range Samplers

In this article we discuss the origin story of Kamon's Range Samplers: what they are, how they work, and how we use them to monitor queues, connection pools, and more.

Announcing the All-new Kamon APM Service Map

Monitoring the health of your entire system and jumping to the root cause of problems has just become easier with the all new Kamon APM Service Map!

Blog Posts Archive

Here are links to everything we published before 2021 in case you need it