OpenTelemetry in Action: Optimizing Database Operations

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Open Telemetry

As developers, we need to understand how our database is performing from the context of user transactions. Ideally, we would have a common tool that can monitor the performance of both the application and the database concerning user transactions. OpenTelemetry has emerged as a popular tool for application monitoring, but it can also be extended for monitoring databases.

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LightStep

In this article, we’ll look at some common database performance issues to see how we can use OpenTelemetry to identify and fix them easily. For a hands-on learning experience, we’ll build a simple application that uses a SQL Server database. We’ll instrument the application with standard OpenTelemetry libraries and connect the application to an ingestion platform, Lightstep. Finally, we’ll use the ingested telemetry to surface our database issues, discussing the steps to resolve them.

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