Traces, Tempo and the LGTM stack
Auto-instrumenting Spring Batch 6 with OpenTelemetry — four silent failures
Wiring Spring Boot 4 + Spring Batch 6 to emit job/step traces into Tempo and spring_batch_* metrics into Prometheus — and the four config traps that each failed the same way: green build, zero errors, nothing exported.
26 Aug 2026
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5 min read
Building agents on the JVM with Embabel
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Part 5
Embabel Agents Being Tracked Through LGTM Observability
I pointed my Embabel agents at a local Grafana LGTM stack and saw nothing. Three configuration gotchas later, every GOAP planning step, LLM call and tool loop shows up as a span in Tempo. Here is the full walkthrough, with screenshots.
26 Jul 2026
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8 min read
Traces, Tempo and the LGTM stack
An intro to TraceQL: how to actually query traces in Grafana Tempo
TraceQL has a tiny surface area but a few sharp edges. Here is the mental model — span scopes, the spanset, aggregates, and structural operators — that makes it click and stops the silent zero-result queries.
24 Jun 2026
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6 min read