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Understanding Observability in Elixir with Dave Lucia - EMx 195

Elixir Mix

CHAPTER

Open Telemetry

Open telemetry is a series of language specific libraries and SDKs that allow you to instrument your application. As you call functions and send messages across processes, these spans build up a tree called a trace. With this trace, you can kind of see where, you know, for a particular request or a particular background job or user interaction,. what is happening in the system and where the system is spending time.

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