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Ensure Node.js OpenTelemetry instrumentations are compatible with installed packages

Ensure Node.js OpenTelemetry instrumentations are compatible with installed packages

Telemetry is a core aspect of monitoring and observability; it helps making sure systems run smoothly, troubleshooting issues after the fact, or being alerted when things go pear-shaped. Losing telemetry seriously hinders those capabilities and it is what happened to me on my most recent project. I was lucky enough

Traces to logs correlation in AWS with Node.js

Traces to logs correlation in AWS with Node.js

Introduction I recently joined MakerX, and the first project I worked on was hosted in AWS using Fargate to run containers, CloudWatch for logs, and X-Ray for OpenTelemetry traces. To make troubleshooting easier, we wanted to see how we could get correlation between traces and logs, or, in other words,