Observability
5 posts filed under Observability.
- September 18, 2026Self-Host TracePath or Use TracePath Cloud: An Honest Decision Guide
Both options run the same open-source code. The difference is who carries the pager. A concrete decision framework covering cost, ops load, compliance, and scale ceilings.
- September 15, 2026Running the TracePath OTel Agent as Your Collector: A Practical Guide
Where the tracepath-otel-agent fits in your pipeline, how to configure it for batch-and-forward, and when you should put a full OpenTelemetry Collector in front of it instead.
- September 12, 2026One Week of Real Traffic on SQLite: What Broke and What Didn't
The follow-up to our SQLite observability benchmark: a full week of production-shaped traffic against the single-binary stack, with the failure modes nobody benchmarks for.
- September 8, 2026What Is an Apdex Score? (And What a Good One Actually Is)
Apdex turns thousands of request latencies into one number your PM can read. How the math works, where the thresholds come from, and how TracePath ranks endpoints by Apdex.
- September 5, 2026The Open-Source Observability Stack in 2026: Beyond the LGTM Tax
You don't need eleven components and a k8s cluster to see what your app is doing. A tour of the open-source observability landscape as it actually is, weights and warts included.