https://www.brianmehrman.com/tags/otel/ Recent content in Otel on Brian Mehrman Hugo en-us Sat, 16 May 2026 14:48:41 -0500 https://www.brianmehrman.com/blog/observability-locally-with-grafana/ Sat, 16 May 2026 14:48:41 -0500 https://www.brianmehrman.com/blog/observability-locally-with-grafana/ <p>When programming you need to know what is happening inside that function or method. You need to reproduce a bug or you are debugging a performance issue. Most of the time adding a trace statement is enough.</p> <p>When debugging production, you&rsquo;re not going to find the answer with a trace message on a remove server. At some point your app gets complicated enough that you need to see what&rsquo;s actually happening — not guess. That&rsquo;s where observability comes in.</p>