Brynjar Ingimarsson

Having good monitoring infrastructure is important to ensure the reliability and performance of production systems. This post is about my experiments with gettings logs, metrics, and traces from a SlimPHP application to Grafana Cloud using an OpenTelemetry collector.

PHP 8.0 introduced attributes. They can be used to add meta-data to classes, methods and more. Here we look at how we can use attributes with Slim to add meta-data to routes.

A real-time telemetry system can be useful in many situations, for example when building an electric race car. With a telemetry system, we can monitor the status of all of the car systems remotely while the car is driving. The goal was to build a telemetry system that would be simple to use and require minimal maintenance. In this article I go over the telemetry system at Team Spark and describe how you can set it up along with all our code.