https://idle-ti.me • This is a web feed, also known as an Atom feed. Subscribe by copying the URL from the address bar into your newsreader. Visit About Feeds to learn more and get started. It's free. Visit website Recent posts Updated on $DATE date distributed tracing Performance engineering & observability — articles, curated tools, and projects by Jérôme Ramette. Zola2026-05-05T00:00:00+00:00https://idle-ti.me/tags/distributed-tracing/atom.xml 2026-05-05T00:00:00+00:00 2026-05-05T00:00:00+00:00 Jérôme Ramette https://idle-ti.me/blog/observability-by-intent/

Tool taxonomies organise observability by metrics, traces, logs, and profiles. Practitioners organise it by intent: what am I trying to understand, debug, or prove? This article reframes the observability stack around six common intents — Golden Signals, latency propagation, high-cardinality debugging, low-overhead profiling, black-box, and cost-efficient at scale — with the workflows, the right tool combinations, the anti-patterns to avoid, and a dedicated treatment of how unified APM platforms (Datadog, New Relic, Dynatrace) fit in the intent-routing framing.