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Building an observability stack for distributed systems

Logs alone are not enough. Modern distributed systems need traces, metrics, and structured logs woven together. Here is how Stratum built its observability platform.

Observability stack

When a request fails in a distributed system, the failure may have originated anywhere in the call chain. Without distributed tracing, you are debugging in the dark.

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