The Road to Observability Everywhere at Monday.Com

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monday.com implements trace-driven testing using OpenTelemetry and Tracetest, asserting on spans across database, cache, analytics and downstream queues. The pipeline runs the same trace tests in CI, local dev, preprod and production (sampling handled by processor rules), cuts test creation time by 90%, speeds feedback by 50%, and surfaces side‑effects traditional API tests miss. Tradeoffs: full local observability and high‑quality instrumentation are required for reliable assertions.

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1. 0:00Observability journey intro
2. 4:14Distributed systems testing
3. 8:30Testing with OpenTelemetry traces
4. 10:36Trace testing locally
5. 11:40End-to-end browser testing
6. 13:30Observability in production
7. 16:42Trace testing implications
8. 18:51Observability-driven adoption
9. 19:37Q&A

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