Tracetest blog

Running Trace-Based Tests with GitHub Actions and Secrets

Learn how to configure a repository to use Tracetest and GitHub Actions with Secrets to run trace-based tests, keeping your sensitive information safe.

July 2, 2024

5min

Propagating the OTel Context from the Browser to the Backend

Learn how to propagate user interactions from your browser to backend services seamlessly using OpenTelemetry's web auto-instrumentation library.

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.

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 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

5 min

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.

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 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.

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 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.

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 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 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.

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.

May 26, 2022

4 min

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.

April 26, 2022

2 min