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Day 1: Simplify tracing with OpenTelemetry and Highlight

Blog post from Highlight.io

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Chris Esplin
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429
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Combining OpenTelemetry with Highlight offers a flexible and vendor-neutral solution for performance tracing, logging, metrics, and error monitoring without the risk of vendor lock-in. OpenTelemetry supports a wide range of libraries and languages, providing compatibility and versatility, while Highlight minimizes the engineering effort involved in storing and visualizing data. Highlight efficiently ingests data using Kafka and ClickHouse, providing a robust user interface for tracing and logging, and allowing the correlation of backend data with frontend user actions. This integration simplifies data management, enabling developers to focus on optimizing application performance.

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OpenTelemetry 18 294 39 17 -29%
Observability 9 1,257 229 79 +14%
Developer Experience 1 355 157 84 +61%