Tracetest blog

End-to-End Observability with Grafana LGTM Stack

Jump in and learn the ins-and-outs of the Grafana LGTM stack and Tracetest to get end-to-end observability and testing.

September 17, 2024

15 min

Get Started with Cloud-based Managed Tracetest

Jump in and learn the ins-and-outs of configuring OpenTelemetry trace exporting and using Cloud-based Managed Tracetest for trace-based testing.

September 10, 2024

9 min

Using Tracetest with OpenTelemetry for Trace-based Testing

Learn the basics of distributed tracing, the differences between tracing and logging, an intro to OpenTelemetry (a set of observability tools), and an intro to Tracetest for trace-based testing.

August 7, 2024

11 min

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.

July 17, 2024

6min

The Future of E2E Tests is Trace-based Testing

Check out the new and improved Playwright Testing Engine. Tracetest natively supports your Playwright tests without including third-party libraries or code snippets.

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

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.

April 4, 2024

OTel Trace Context Propagation with Message Brokers + Go

Developing observable applications communicating via message brokers can be tough. However, OpenTelemetry simplifies this process. Learn how to use context propagation with NATS!

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 13, 2024

2 min

Tracetest is going to KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe in Paris

Let's connect at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe in Paris 🇫🇷. Meet Ken and Adnan at Booth L37.

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!

March 5, 2024

Tracetest Monthly Newsletter - February 2024

Check out all of the latest and greatest updates in the Tracetest world in our monthly newsletter!

February 22, 2024

Automating Tracetest Tests via TypeScript or JavaScript

Learn how to programmatically run trace-based tests from JavaScript or TypeScript, allowing for automated setup and execution within code flows!

February 20, 2024

Setup and Teardown of Tracetest Tests with Test Suites

Learn how to create setup and teardown of trace-based tests with Test Suites, allowing for codeless setup to chain together several tests into one comprehensive flow!

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 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

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!

November 15, 2023

16 min

The Power of Traces: Learn by Contributing to OpenTelemetry

Today you’ll learn how to contribute to the OpenTelemetry Demo repo safely, by learning to write OpenTelemetry code instrumentation and testing your contributions by writing trace-based tests.

November 9, 2023

Observability at KubeCon North America 2023 in Chicago

Check out this quick recap of the Observability Community at KubeCon North America 2023 in Chicago!

November 2, 2023

12 min

Testing Event-driven Systems with OpenTelemetry

This article explains how to test event-driven systems with OpenTelemetry, using trace-based tests with Tracetest to emit events with Kafka and test how consumers process the events.

November 1, 2023

Tracetest is going to KubeCon NA in Chicago!

Come hang out with the Tracetest team at booth P32!

October 26, 2023

Tracetest Monthly Newsletter - October 2023

Check out all of the latest and greatest updates in the Tracetest world in our monthly newsletter!

October 24, 2023

9 min

Adding OpenTelemetry Metrics in Your Go App

This guide will describe how our team added OpenTelemetry metrics to Tracetest and how you can do the same with your Go app.

October 18, 2023

Level Up Node.js E2E + Integration Testing with OpenTelemetry

Learn how to set up a Node.js app with OpenTelemetry instrumentation and integrate Tracetest for enhanced E2E and integration tests using trace-based testing.

October 5, 2023

OpenTelemetry isn't just for Monitoring + Troubleshooting anymore

Tracetest introduces its Open Beta, going beyond just monitoring and troubleshooting to be the ultimate platform for development and testing with OpenTelemetry

September 28, 2023

Tracetest Monthly Newsletter - September 2023

Check out all of the latest and greatest happenings in the Tracetest world in our monthly newsletter!

September 5, 2023

Tracetest + Dynatrace: Unified Observability for Testing

📢 Exciting news! Tracetest has integrated with Dynatrace to offer unified observability for testing. You can create trace-based tests & monitor them over time

August 31, 2023

Tracetest Newsletter - August 2023 Edition

Check out all of the latest and greatest happenings in the Tracetest world in our monthly newsletter!

August 24, 2023

Why did OpenTelemetry Ditch Black-box Tests?

Discover how trace-based testing techniques helped the OpenTelemetry (OTel) Demo increase reliability and confidence in releases.

August 15, 2023

Tracetest Monthly Newsletter - July 2023

Check out all of the latest and greatest happenings in the Tracetest world in our monthly newsletter!

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 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 26, 2023

A Tool for Cloud Native Testing - One Year In

Tracetest is celebrating its first birthday! Read about our challenges and successes in developing software based on the new concept of trace-based testing.

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.

March 2, 2023

Tracetest + k6: Deep Load Testing of your Cloud Native System

Tracetest now works with k6! The combination of k6 & Tracetest allows load tests to check across your entire microservice, FaaS, or Kubernetes applications.

February 28, 2023

16 min

Running Trace-Based Tests on the OTel Demo App with Nomad

Shows how to install Tracetest and the OTel Demo App on Nomad running locally using HashiQube & how to create and run a simple test with Tracetest.

February 23, 2023

Top 8 Open-Source Observability & Testing Tools

Shift-left mentality means more power and responsibility. Implement one of these 8 open source observability and testing tools to release high-quality code.

February 14, 2023

Ad Hoc Testing of Distributed Systems

In development and production it’s useful to be able to select a test and run it with a value you specify at run time. Tracetest now enables ad hoc tests!

February 7, 2023

9 min

Chaining API Tests to Handle Complex Distributed System Testing

Learn how to create tests to validate complex user processes that require multiple API endpoints to be called in a particular sequence.

February 2, 2023

6min

Tracetest + Elastic: Trace-based testing meets APM

Tracetest now integrates with Elastic Observability Application Performance Monitoring to provide both testing & monitoring of your cloud native application.

January 26, 2023

Announcing the Tracetest integration with Lightstep

Today, we're happily announcing that Tracetest now works with Lightstep, the cloud-native reliability platform.

January 19, 2023

22 min

Observability-driven development with Go and Tracetest

Hands-on tutorial covering observability-driven development, how to develop microservices with Go & how to run trace-based tests with Tracetest.

January 10, 2023

10 min

Test-driven & observability-driven development: the difference

Observability-driven development (ODD) emphasizes using instrumentation in back-end code as assertions. Tracetest empowers this with your distributed traces.

January 4, 2023

Tracetest v0.9: Making Configuration Easy

Tracetest v0.9 is here. Tune in to check out how we revamped the configuration flow. You can now hook up trace data stores from the Web UI! Read more below.

December 13, 2022

11min

Observability and Trace-based Testing in AWS

In-depth tutorial on how to configure OpenTelemetry instrumentation on AWS Lambda with Serverless Framework, OpenSearch, & Tracetest.

October 3, 2022

Enabling Tracetest to Work Directly with OpenSearch

Tracetest now directly supports OpenSearch as a backend storage system for OpenTelemetry based traces, enabling trace-based testing for teams using OpenSearch.

August 18, 2022

Common Cypress Testing Pitfalls & How to Avoid Them

Write better E2E tests using Cypress while avoiding the most common pitfalls. Discusses avoiding the use of wait, importance of using baseUrl & chains, & more.

July 27, 2022

2 min

Tracetest 0.6 Release: gRPC, Postman and More

Tracetest released v0.6 introducing the ability to create tests based on gRPC or Postman Collections in addition to other new features.

July 13, 2022

Integration Tests: Pros + Cons of Doubles v. Trace-Based Testing

A look at utilizing doubles in tests, full system integration tests, and trace based tests when developing test suites and the pros and cons of each technique.

July 6, 2022

Detect & Fix Performance Issues Using Tracetest

Tracetest can spot anomalies in code before users or developers encounter them. Learn more about how to use it in a Test-Driven Development (TDD) flow.

June 8, 2022

Tracetest — Assertions, Versioning & CI/CD

Tracetest released v0.5 w/new capabilities to enable you to create trace-based tests. The release includes better assertions, versioning, & CI/CD capability.

May 26, 2022

Tracing the History of Distributed Tracing & OTel

A history of OpenTelemetry Tracing. From Dapper in 2010 to Zipkin, Jaeger, OpenTracing & OpenCensus, see how the industry coalesced around OpenTelemetry.

May 6, 2022

1 min

Here's what's next for the Tracetest OTel tracing test tool

We released Tracetest to the public last week. Learn more about how we'll go from MVPrototype to MVProduct as we inch closer to our next release.

April 26, 2022

2 min

Introducing Tracetest - Trace-based Testing w/OTel

Tracetest, a tool which allows easy creation of end-to-end tests. Leverages your current investment in OpenTelemetry based tracing to make deep testing simple.

April 16, 2024

Artillery: Announcing Tracetest Integration

Today we're announcing an integration with Tracetest, a trace-based end-to-end debugging and testing tool. Tracetest is open-source and offers a cloud-based managed platform.

March 5, 2024

The One Where We Geek Out on Trace-Based Testing with Adnan Rahić of Tracetest

Adriana geeks out with Adnan Rahić of Tracetest trace-based testing. Adnan explains what trace-based testing is, and how it can be an invaluable part of your CI/CD pipeline.

February 6, 2024

Expert Series: Microservices Observability with Adnan Rahić

Recently, we had the opportunity to speak with Adnan Rahić, a professional in the field, about the critical importance of observability in navigating the complexities of microservices.

December 29, 2023

OpenTelemetry and Observability: Looking Forward

Let’s explore some of the exciting trends we've witnessed and consider the evolving landscape of observability as we anticipate what 2024 has in store.

October 20, 2023

SigNoz + Tracetest: OpenTelemetry-Native Observability Meets Testing

A look at how SigNoz distributed tracing can help when testing distributed systems with Tracetest.

October 11, 2023

3 Ways Observability Matters in Cloud Native Testing

A look at how distributed tracing can help when testing systems before production.

June 5, 2023

Where Does Trace-Based Testing Fit in the Testing Pyramid?

Trace-based testing overcomes the limits of black box testing by leveraging work already invested in observability of your system via distributed tracing.

March 22, 2023

Observability — Freeing Your Load Tests from the Black Box

Troubleshooting tools have evolved, but what about performance testing? Are the same black-box testing methods from the late 2000s still being used? Is this adequate for today’s decomposed services?

December 7, 2022

5 Ways Trace-Based Testing Matters to SREs

Site reliability engineers are concerned about monitoring, not testing. Right?

August 26, 2022