Who finds out when the data is late?
A partner file is due at 06:00. At 06:00 it is not there. Nothing failed, because nothing ran, so nothing alerted. How expected-rate checks turn silence into a…
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How to monitor a SQL Server instance using OpenTelemetry
Most integrations lean on a database, and when SQL Server slows, everything on top of it slows too. Here's how to monitor a SQL Server instance with OpenTelemetry…
Read →Node-RED Tracing with OpenTelemetry: When All Your Integrations Hide Inside One Service
Node-RED's OpenTelemetry package exports distributed traces per flow — but service-centric monitoring lumps every flow into one service, so one failing flow looks like a platform outage. Two…
Read →Your customers shouldn’t be your file-transfer monitoring
Here’s an org chart that exists in almost every large company, told as a small tragedy in three acts. There’s a centralized file-transfer team. They run the platform…
Read →Modeling an Integration, Not a Service: What a Partner EDI Flow Looks Like in OpenTelemetry Spans
Every OpenTelemetry tutorial starts the same way: a request arrives, spans fan out through your services, a response goes back. Lovely. Now explain that to an EDI flow.…
Read →Making sense of the outside, without touching the inside
Every integration landscape we’ve seen is a zoo. Kafka in one corner, RabbitMQ in another, a Debezium connector quietly copying a database, an API gateway in front of…
Read →AI Made Building Cheap. It Made Owning Expensive. That’s Why Standards Matter More Than Ever.
Before we start: this is a personal opinion piece. No survey data, no analyst quadrant — just my own read on where this is heading, from building and…
Read →The OpenTelemetry Memory Limiter: Why Your Collector Needs One
There’s a special irony in observability: the moment your systems get loud is the moment they produce the most telemetry — and the most telemetry is exactly what…
Read →Monitoring Data Should Be a Value Creator, Not a Bill. How We Priced Sluicio.
There’s a quiet moment in every observability rollout where the incentives flip. In week one, more telemetry means more insight: the first traces answer questions you couldn’t answer…
Read →Monitoring file age with OpenTelemetry — and shipping it to Sluicio
File-drop integrations fail silently. The sender writes an XML file to a share, the receiver picks it up — and when the receiver dies, nothing errors. Files just…
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