Full-Stack Application Monitoring & Observability

Observability enables engineering teams to understand the internal state of a distributed system by analyzing telemetry data (logs, metrics, and traces).

**TL;DR:** Achieve enterprise visibility using vendor-neutral OpenTelemetry distributed tracing alongside Sentry error tracking.

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OpenTelemetry Node.js SDK Initialization Blueprint

import { NodeSDK } from "@opentelemetry/sdk-node";
import { getNodeAutoInstrumentations } from "@opentelemetry/auto-instrumentations-node";
import { OTLPTraceExporter } from "@opentelemetry/exporter-trace-otlp-grpc";

const sdk = new NodeSDK({
  traceExporter: new OTLPTraceExporter({
    url: process.env.OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_ENDPOINT || "grpc://localhost:4317",
  }),
  instrumentations: [getNodeAutoInstrumentations()],
});

sdk.start();