https://vutg.me/tags/tracing/Recent content in Tracing on Adam VuHugoenWed, 19 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://vutg.me/posts/stop-logging-start-observing-opentelemetry-metrics-and-traces-with-honeycomb/Wed, 19 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://vutg.me/posts/stop-logging-start-observing-opentelemetry-metrics-and-traces-with-honeycomb/<p>Your service emits ten thousand log lines a minute. When it breaks at 2 AM, you grep through them, pattern-match by eye, and eventually find the one line that mattered. You&rsquo;ve just done manually what a machine should have done automatically. This is the fundamental problem with logging as a primary observability strategy.</p> <p>This post argues that <strong>logs are the wrong primitive</strong> for understanding system behavior at scale, explains the OpenTelemetry model that replaces them, and walks through a hands-on Python lab that exports telemetry to Honeycomb so you can see the difference yourself.</p>