About a year ago my boss asked me to look into a performance issue on one of our products. What I immediately noticed was there wasn’t really any logging or diagnostics available in the code. The way things were done made answering a basic question like, “Where is all the time going?”, really hard to […]
Part of the series: Fun with OpenTelemetry .NET I’m working with a team that is doing something interesting I haven’t seen before. They use this Google/Edge browser extension call ModHeader to tell their browsers to send a custom header called X-Debug-Trace when it makes requests to our application. What this header does is turn on […]
Part of the series: Fun with OpenTelemetry .NET You’ve hooked up OpenTelemetry .NET into your application and configured an exporter (Jaeger, Zipkin, OpenTelemetryProtocol, etc.) but you’re not seeing any of your data anywhere. You looked around for an exception but there’s nothing. Is this hitting close to home? Don’t worry, it’s not you. This common […]