David Rifkin, Author at Embrace

Posts by this Author ( 10 )

observability

18 April 2025 • 4 min read

The view from London: KubeCon Europe 2025

Embrace spent time at KubeCon discovering that people are using OpenTelemetry in all sorts of ways, but maybe not around users.

observability

7 March 2025 • 8 min read

Choosing manual or auto-instrumentation for mobile observability

Mobile applications need to blend instrumentation types to make sense of their telemetry. Read here to find out which to use, and when.

iOS

18 February 2025 • 7 min read

How to make sense of iOS user activity with OpenTelemetry

OpenTelemetry can be a powerful tool for observing mobile apps. Read along as we use the OTel-Swift SDK to trace app activity from disparate parts of an iOS code base.

grafana

2 January 2025 • 8 min read

Building a mobile SLO with Embrace and Grafana

Engineering teams use mobile SLOs to monitor user flows and ensure user-impacting issues are detected and resolved quickly. In this tutorial, we'll show you how to use Embrace, in combination with Grafana, to build and monitor mobile SLO for your app – from initial app instrumentation, all the way to connecting to backend dashboards and alerts.