Colin Contreary
Colin Contreary is the head of content at Embrace. He brings 16 years of writing experience across comedy, musicals, and technical writing. Colin has been with the Embrace team since 2020. His passion for technology makes him a notable member of the team. He has self-taught web development skills that support his technical writing.
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                    Research
                
            
            
                    
                23 April 2025 • 2 min read
            
        Mobile is messy: 6 charts that prove it
            
            In this data report from Embrace, learn how devices, operating systems, app versions, unpredictable network conditions, and more contribute to the complexity of the modern mobile environment.
        
        
    
    
                
                    observability
                
            
            
                    
                18 April 2025 • 5 min read
            
        Mobile observability: Key considerations for the build vs. buy decision
            
            Learn the unique challenges of mobile environments so you can make the best decision when implementing observability for mobile apps. 
        
        
    
    
                
                    observability
                
            
            
                    
                13 March 2025 • 7 min read
            
        Embrace: Modern mobile observability built on OpenTelemetry
            
            Embrace combines open-source SDKs with an analysis dashboard to help the entire engineering team understand exactly what is disrupting mobile user experiences.
        
        
    
    
                
                    React Native
                
            
            
                    
                26 February 2025 • 2 min read
            
        Embrace React Native SDK: now fully built on OpenTelemetry
            
            React Native developers rejoice! Embrace's React Native SDK is open source and now fully OpenTelemetry-compliant. So you'll get best-in-class, flexible tooling to monitor your React Native apps while still adhering to OTel data standards. You can even use the SDK to send out telemetry to any OTLP-HTTP endpoint without going through the Embrace backend or platform at all! 
        
        
    
    
                
                    OpenTelemetry
                
            
            
                    
                21 February 2025 • 60 min read
            
        In love with OTel and observability panel recap
            
            Watch this OpenTelemetry expert panel to learn about the most loved (and hated) parts of everyone’s favorite observability framework. And to play “Fling, Marry, Kill” with logs, metrics, and traces.