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Open-source tools to help you with Kubernetes-native development & testing

Whether you are a Developer, a Tester, or a DevOps, learn how to streamline your Kubernetes-based projects with Kubeshop tools.

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Tracing

July 23, 2024
7min
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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
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Tracetest Tips: Propagating the OpenTelemetry 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
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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
7 min
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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
7 min
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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
6 min
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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
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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
7 min
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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
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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
6 min
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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
7 min
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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
6 min
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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
6 min
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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
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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
7 min
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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
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Running Trace-Based Tests on the OpenTelemetry 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
6 min
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.

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June 5, 2023
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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.

June 5, 2023
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Creating a Kubernetes Cluster with Runtime Observability

This blog post documents our findings and provides step-by-step instructions to set up a local observability environment and inspect traces on its API, node agent, and container runtime.

August 26, 2022
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Trace-Based Testing: The Next Step in Observability

While tools to enable Trace-Based Testing are new, the concept has been utilized & discussed since 2010. Read the what, why, and learn how you can utilize OTel tracing to supercharge your testing.