Plain explanations of the basics
What OpenTelemetry, SNMP, NetFlow, SBOMs and SLOs are, how they work and where they fall short, in plain words. Each one ends with how Tracix handles it today.
Explainers
- What is OpenTelemetry?OpenTelemetry explained plainly, from the API, SDKs and OTLP to the collector and semantic conventions, what it leaves to you, and how Tracix uses it.
- What is distributed tracing?How distributed tracing follows one request through many services with spans and trace context, what sampling trades away, and how Tracix stores traces.
- SLOs and error budgets in practiceWhat SLIs, SLOs and error budgets are, how to pick targets and windows, why burn-rate alerts beat thresholds, and how Tracix measures and alerts on SLOs.
- What is network configuration management?Network configuration management explained, from backups, drift and compliance to reviewed changes, CLI and model-driven protocols, and how Tracix does it.
- SNMP v2c and v3: what changes and why it mattersHow SNMP works, what v2c added to v1, what v3's user-based security changes, how to run either safely, and how Tracix polls devices and receives traps.
- What is NetFlow?What NetFlow, IPFIX and sFlow record about network traffic, how exporters and collectors work, what sampling hides, and how Tracix analyzes flows.
- What is an SBOM, and what is VEX?What a software bill of materials lists, the SPDX and CycloneDX formats, how VEX says whether a vulnerability affects you, and what Tracix matches and exports.
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