How do I instrument Alerting best practices with OpenTelemetry?

Learn how to implement alerting best practices using OpenTelemetry for efficient monitoring and observability of your applications.
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<?php use OpenTelemetry\API\Trace\Span; use OpenTelemetry\SDK\Trace\TracerProvider; use OpenTelemetry\SDK\Trace\SimpleSpanProcessor; use OpenTelemetry\Contrib\Prometheus\PrometheusExporter; // Initialize the tracer $tracerProvider = TracerProvider::create() ->addSpanProcessor(new SimpleSpanProcessor(new PrometheusExporter())); $tracer = $tracerProvider->getTracer('example-tracer'); // Start a new span $span = $tracer->startSpan('example-span'); // Your application logic here // End the span $span->end(); // Use alerts based on metrics collected // Implement logic to evaluate spans and trigger alerts as necessary ?>

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