If you’re new to the observability space, it’s easy to get lost in a sea of terms. What are APMs, traces, spans, telemetry, and metrics? Are Jaeger and Zipkin actual words? What’s the difference between OpenTelemetry and OpenTracing? Let’s try to make sense of all this language. Let me present a complete dictionary of observability and distributed tracing terminology. Telemetry refers to the collection of signals that your applications, services, and infrastructure send to observability backends.

Logs can provide much more than debugging and troubleshooting for your application. Read more to see how logs can be used for metrics, alerts, experiments, and more.

Logging is a big part of software development for many years now. This guide is a bird's eye view of modern solutions for logging in .NET space.