Tracetest blog

Synthetic Monitoring with OpenTelemetry and Playwright

Check out how we use Tracetest to test Tracetest and ensure top-notch performance and reliability. 🌟 We combine synthetic monitoring with end-to-end trace-based testing using Playwright.

August 6, 2024

3min

Announcing Tracetest Enterprise On-Prem Solution

We are excited to announce the release of the on-premise enterprise self-hosted Tracetest! Now, you can enjoy our cloud-based managed Tracetest experience within your own infrastructure.

June 26, 2024

Tracetest Monitors: Trace-based testing meets Synthetic Monitoring

Trace-based synthetic monitoring enables scheduled tests and alerts without external CI tools. It makes "testing in production" and enhancing observability across teams easier!

June 19, 2024

16 min

OpenTelemetry Trace Context Propagation for gRPC Streams

Tracing operations in gRPC streams can be tricky. Check out this comprehensive guide on how to implement trace context propagation for gRPC streams using OpenTelemetry.

June 14, 2024

11 min

Monitoring and Testing Cloud Native APIs with Grafana

This tutorial provides step-by-step instructions for setting up & using Docker Compose to run Grafana, Tempo and Tracetest to monitor & test APIs.

June 11, 2024

3 min

Using Env Vars to Include & Exclude OpenTelemetry Node.js Libraries

You’ll learn how to run Node.js with OpenTelemetry auto instrumentation and how to enable/disable auto instrumentations with environment variables or programmatically in code!

June 7, 2024

Test Observability for Teams with Tracetest v1.x

Tracetest's second-ever Launch Week is wrapping up! Check out this recap to learn about Test Observability for platform and observability teams!

May 30, 2024

Test Observability for AWS Lambda with Grafana Tempo & OpenTel Layers

Learn about using Grafana Cloud, which we use at Tracetest for tracing, metrics, profiling, and observability, with AWS Lambda and OpenTelemetry Layers!

May 16, 2024

Integrating Datadog Instrumented Apps in your OpenTelemetry Stack

Struggling with integrating legacy APIs with OpenTelemetry? Learn to process data from Datadog-instrumented apps in your OTel stack!

May 14, 2024

12 min

Event-driven Kubernetes testing with Testkube and Tracetest

Learn how to set up both scheduled and event-driven trace-based tests in Kubernetes utilizing an integration between two tools - Tracetest and Testkube.

April 25, 2024

Tracetest Celebrates 2nd Birthday with 1.0 Release!

Today is our 2nd birthday! With the release of version 1.0, we're celebrating our mission of proactive, pre-production testing using OpenTelemetry.

April 19, 2024

Tracetest + Artillery Launch Week Recap

This week, we launched our integration with Artillery, and it's been a wild ride! We've shared daily updates, tutorials, and webinars to help you get started with trace-based performance testing.

March 26, 2024

Observability 🔭 at KubeCon CloudNativeCon EU 2024 Paris

We're back from KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2024 in Paris. What a wild ride it was. Check out the recap!

March 12, 2024

Testing AWS Lambda & Serverless with OpenTelemetry

Dive into the Serverless Framework to master instrumenting and testing AWS Lambda functions. Learn seamless observability-based testing with minimal setup by using Tracetest!

February 14, 2024

10 min

Crafting Observable Cloudflare Workers with OpenTelemetry

Simplify troubleshooting in your Cloudflare Workers with OpenTelemetry and Tracetest! Get end-to-end visibility in your Serverless architecture by using the power of distributed tracing!

February 13, 2024

12 min

Building an Observability Stack with Docker

Want to validate your observability features locally? This tutorial guides you through setting up an observability stack with Docker. Learn how to send metrics and traces, visualize data, and more.

February 8, 2024

The Lord of Playwright: The Two Traces

Test your critical flows via a Playwright test which leverages both OpenTelemetry and trace-based testing to verify your entire front end AND back end. True end-to-end testing in one Playwright test!

January 19, 2024

Cloud Native Observability and Cypress: An Unlikely Marriage

True end-to-end testing and confident deployments! The Tracetest and Cypress integration is changing the game in front-end testing. Say hello to full system visibility!

January 18, 2024

Sumo Logic and Tracetest: AI-Driven Observability Meets Testing

📣 Tracetest now integrates and Sumo Logic to unite AI-Driven Observability and Testing! Teams can now create trace-based tests and monitor them over time in Sumo Logic.

January 11, 2024

3 min

Load Testing with k6 and Tracetest

A major update to the Tracetest integration with k6 is here! 🎉 This enhancement allows for seamless integration of trace-based tests with k6 load tests executed from the Tracetest managed platform.

January 9, 2024

12 minutes

Integration Testing Vercel Serverless Functions with OpenTelemetry

Simplify troubleshooting in your Vercel functions with OpenTelemetry and Tracetest! Uncover the power of distributed tracing and see how trace-based testing is changing the game!

July 5, 2023

Announcing the Tracetest Integration with Azure App Insights

Tracetest integrates with Azure App Insights, enhancing code quality w/trace analysis, assertions based on traces & works w/your existing Azure Monitor setup.

June 20, 2023

50% Faster CI Pipelines with GitHub Actions

Revamped our CI pipelines with Docker Compose and the new pipeline is 50% faster, reducing wait times & false negatives. No more unstable or long deployments!

June 13, 2023

Identify patterns and issues with code instrumentation

The Tracetest Analyzer can analyze traces, identify patterns & fix issues with code instrumentation, making it easy adhere to OpenTelemetry rules and standards.

June 1, 2023

GitHub Actions + Observability + Slack: Synthetic API Tests

Simulate user transactions by setting up synthetic monitoring for your API with Github Actions, Slack and Tracetest.

May 25, 2023

Honeycomb + Tracetest: Observability-driven Development

Taking observability-driven development to new heights by leveraging Honeycomb's powerful pattern detection + Tracetest's trace-based testing techniques.

May 11, 2023

15 min

Trace-based Testing AWS Lambda with Tracetest

Learn how to instrument a Node.js Lambda function using OpenTelemetry, store tracing data in Jaeger, and run trace-based testing with Tracetest!

April 27, 2023

KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2023: Highlights from Amsterdam

KubeCon Europe 2023 was sold out with 10K+ attendees, and it was thrilling to see such a positive response to Tracetest + trace-based testing. Read more...

April 13, 2023

Top 9 Commercial Distributed Tracing Tools

Read about the top 9 commercial distributed tracing solutions from both Observability & APM vendors as well as Cloud providers, and hear what sets them apart.

April 11, 2023

11 min

Spring update: Integrations, Improving UX, and Ease of Provisioning

The Tracetest team had two main focuses in Q1: integrations and improving ease of use. Check out the highlights from Q1 of 2023 and our roadmap for Q2!

April 6, 2023

13 min

Trace-based testing cloud-native apps with AWS X-Ray + Tracetest

Distributed tracing with AWS X-Ray combined with Tracetest allows complete end-to-end testing of processes for Lambda, Fargate, EKS, and EC2.

March 9, 2023

Announcing the Tracetest integration with Keptn

Tracetest now works with Keptn, a control plane and micro platform for cloud-native application delivery & operations. Use trace-based tests as quality gates.

February 28, 2023

16 min