OpenTelemetry setup for tracing and monitoring
OpenTelemetry is how we get traces out of an application without tying them to one monitoring vendor. It is part of our monitoring, audit and modernisation work, and we have written up how to set it up in Next.js.
What we do with OpenTelemetry
Monitoring and audits
In ongoing maintenance and technical audits, traces show where the time actually goes, so fixes start from evidence rather than a hunch.
Next.js, step by step
Our guide covers instrumentation.ts, OTLP export, a withSpan helper, server actions, route handlers, a fetch wrapper and running it all in production on Vercel.
Vendor-neutral by design
Telemetry leaves the app over OTLP, so the backend that stores it, ClickStack in the guide, can change without instrumenting the code again.
OpenTelemetry in our services
Offerings that list OpenTelemetry in their stack.
Multi-Cloud Architecture
Current Solutions Audit
System Modernization and Scaling
Ad Hoc Consultations and Ongoing Advisory
Monitoring and rapid problem response
Articles
Blog posts tagged OpenTelemetry.
Other technologies
The rest of the stack, each with its own services and projects.
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