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03 Feb
LOGS

Sampling logs without losing the signal

Shipping every log line at high volume gets expensive fast. Head-based percentage sampling is the wrong first move, here is what...

Tomás Rivera Feb 3 2026 2 min
27 Jan
OPENTELEMETRY

Adding tracing to a legacy monolith without a rewrite

You do not need to break up the monolith to trace it. Wrap the entry points, propagate one header, and the internal call graph...

Priya Raman Jan 27 2026 3 min
20 Jan
ALERTING

Setting up your first alert in Helix

A latency alert that pages on a single noisy spike is worse than no alert at all. Here is how to build one that survives real...

Priya Raman Jan 20 2026 2 min
14 Jan
DASHBOARDS

From zero to a dashboard in five minutes

Skip the blank-canvas paralysis. Clone a starter layout, swap two queries, and ship a dashboard the team will actually open...

Tomás Rivera Jan 14 2026 2 min
05 Jan
OPENTELEMETRY

Instrumenting your first service with the Helix SDK

Fifteen minutes from an empty service to a first trace, metric, and log line landing in Helix, with no config file spelunking...

Priya Raman Jan 5 2026 3 min
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