Tracetest blog

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

Adam Gardner

Developer Relations

Dynatrace

Tracetest Newsletter - August 2023 Edition

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

Adnan Rahic

Sr. Developer Advocate

Why did OpenTelemetry Ditch Black-box Tests?

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

Tracetest Monthly Newsletter - July 2023

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

Adnan Rahic

Sr. Developer Advocate

Monitoring and Testing Cloud Native APIs with Grafana

Learn how to use Grafana to monitor and test APIs with distributed tracing, preventing errors from reaching production. This tutorial provides step-by-step instructions for setting up and using Docker Compose to run Grafana, Tempo and Tracetest.

Adnan Rahic

Sr. Developer Advocate

Announcing the Tracetest Integration with Azure App Insights

Tracetest now integrates with Azure App Insights, enhancing code quality with trace analysis, assertions based on traces, and integrating with your existing Azure Monitor setup!

Oscar Reyes

Lead Software Engineer

Tracetest Analyzer: Identify patterns and issues with code instrumentation

The first-ever tool to analyze traces! The Tracetest Analyzer can analyze traces, identify patterns, and fix issues with code instrumentation. It’s the easy way to adhere to OpenTelemetry rules and standards to ensure high quality telemetry data.

Oscar Reyes

Lead Software Engineer

GitHub Actions + Observability + Slack: Synthetic API Tests

Synthetic monitoring is a crucial technique for proactively detecting issues and optimizing system performance. Learn how to simulate user transactions with Tracetest and automate with GitHub Actions!