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OpenTelemetryEngineering

Why OpenTelemetry is the Future of Observability

OpenTelemetry has reached production-grade stability and is rapidly becoming the de-facto standard for instrumentation. Here's why every engineering team should be adopting it now — and how to get started.

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aiAxonIQ Team

Engineering at aiAxonIQ

Mar 20, 20269 min readRead article

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LLMOpenTelemetry

LLM Observability: What to Trace and Why

LLM calls are expensive, non-deterministic, and opaque. Here's what to capture on every model call — tokens, latency, cost, and errors — and how the OpenTelemetry GenAI conventions make it portable.

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aiAxonIQ Team
May 28, 2026·10 min read
OpenTelemetryEngineering

OpenTelemetry Collector vs Direct SDK Export: Which Should You Use?

Your OTel SDK can ship telemetry straight to a backend, or through a Collector. Both are valid. Here's a practical decision guide — and the gateway pattern most teams land on.

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aiAxonIQ Team
Apr 16, 2026·8 min read
AlertingBest Practices

Reducing Alert Fatigue: A Practical Guide

Most teams get paged for things that don't need attention. Learn how to build alert rules that fire when it actually matters.

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aiAxonIQ Team
Mar 14, 2026·7 min read
TutorialNode.js

From Zero to Observability in 15 Minutes

A step-by-step walkthrough of instrumenting a Node.js API with OpenTelemetry and shipping traces to aiAxonIQ.

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aiAxonIQ Team
Mar 7, 2026·15 min read
ReliabilityConcepts

SLOs, SLAs, and SLIs: A No-Fluff Explainer

These three acronyms are everywhere in reliability engineering. Here's what they actually mean and how to use them correctly.

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aiAxonIQ Team
Feb 28, 2026·6 min read
EngineeringClickHouse

Why We Chose ClickHouse for Observability Data

After evaluating ElasticSearch, Loki, and Tempo, here's why we landed on ClickHouse for our logs and metrics storage engine.

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aiAxonIQ Team
Feb 18, 2026·11 min read
KubernetesTutorial

Kubernetes Observability: The Complete Checklist

Pods, nodes, deployments, namespaces — monitoring Kubernetes can feel overwhelming. Start here.

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aiAxonIQ Team
Feb 10, 2026·10 min read
PromQLMetrics

PromQL for Beginners: 10 Queries You'll Actually Use

PromQL's power comes from a handful of patterns. Master these 10 and you'll handle 90% of real-world monitoring use cases.

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aiAxonIQ Team
Feb 3, 2026·8 min read

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