Guides

Practical guides to APM, observability and OpenTelemetry: what the terms mean, which signals to watch, and how to debug production software.

Looking for Maple's documentation? Setup, instrumentation for every language, alerting and the API reference are in the docs. Go to docs →

Start here

What is APM?

How metrics, traces, errors and logs get you from “users are waiting” to the dependency that caused it.

 What is observability?

Traces, logs and metrics, and why correlating them matters more than collecting each one.

 What is OpenTelemetry?

How vendor-neutral instrumentation keeps telemetry portable across languages and backends.

 Best open-source observability tools

The leading options compared by architecture, signals, license and operating cost.

All guides

See your first trace today.

Add the SDK, point your OTLP exporter at Maple, and traces arrive.

Start free trial View on GitHub

maple.dev: observability on OpenTelemetry