In this Kongcast Episode, Chinmay Gaikwad, tech evangelist at Epsagon, explains why metrics and logs aren’t sufficient for companies with a microservices architecture. Instead, Chinmay recommends leveraging distributed tracing for optimal observability.

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TIMECODES

0:00 Kongcast Show Intro

0:28 Welcome, Chinmay!

1:56 How Observability Has Changed Over the Years

3:52 How Does Epsagon Help With Observability Challenges?

5:43 What’s the Value of Distributed Tracing?

6:59 Important Metrics to Track With Distributed Tracing

9:47 Epsagon Use Case

12:00 How to Instrument Epsagon

16:10 Monitoring Workloads in the Clouds

17:16 Demo: Epsagon in Action

23:47 Book Recommendations from Chinmay

24:33 Thanks for Joining, Chinmay!

25:07 Kongcast Show Outro

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