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15 Apr
TUTORIALS

Writing your first HelixQL query

Joins across signal types in four lines. A gentle, copy-paste-ready introduction.

Lena Park Apr 15 2026 2 min
10 Apr
INCIDENT

Routing alerts by service owner with HelixQL

A dozen services should not all page the same catch-all channel. Route by ownership metadata baked into the alert rule itself,...

Arjun Mehta Apr 10 2026 3 min
04 Apr
TRACING

Wiring exemplars from a metric back to a trace

A latency histogram tells you p99 jumped. An exemplar tells you which trace produced that outlier point, without a separate...

Priya Raman Apr 4 2026 3 min
29 Mar
COST

Turning on tail-based sampling for a single service

Head-based sampling decides before a request finishes. Tail-based sampling waits, and keeps the traces that turned out to...

Tomás Rivera Mar 29 2026 3 min
24 Mar
COST

Setting a cardinality budget before it sets you

Cardinality problems are invisible until the bill or the query latency makes them obvious. A budget catches the runaway label...

Priya Raman Mar 24 2026 2 min
17 Mar
TRACING

Joining traces and logs in a single HelixQL query

Traces tell you where time went. Logs tell you why. The join keyword is what lets one query answer both at once instead of two...

Priya Raman Mar 17 2026 2 min
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