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We're joining LaunchDarkly!

Apr 23, 2025 • 7 min. read
Jay Khatri
Co-founder & CEO
OpenTelemetry

Observability for Your Go ORM: OpenTelemetry Integration with GORM

Feb 20, 2025 • 10 min. read
Chris Schmitz
Software Engineer @ Highlight
Product Updates

Highlight for WordPress: Session Replay, Error Monitoring, and Performance Insights

Feb 11, 2025 • 3 min. read
Chris Schmitz
Software Engineer @ Highlight
Engineering

The complete guide to OpenTelemetry in Next.js

Feb 10, 2025 • 14 min. read
Vadim Korolik
CTO @ Highlight
Engineering

Configuring the OpenTelemetry Collector for AWS Firehose

Jan 30, 2025 • 4 min. read
Vadim Korolik
CTO @ Highlight
Company

Building Highlight’s new 'Connect' flow

Jan 30, 2025 • 18 min. read
Julian Schneider
Lead Designer @ Highlight
Backend

Data isolation with ClickHouse row policies

Jan 28, 2025 • 9 min. read
Zane Mayberry
Software Engineer @ Highlight
Engineering

Ingest and Visualization for OpenTelemetry Metrics

Jan 23, 2025 • 14 min. read
Vadim Korolik
CTO @ Highlight
Engineering

How to instrument your React Native app with OpenTelemetry

Jan 22, 2025 • 18 min. read
Spencer Amarantides
Engineer @ Highlight
Engineering

The complete guide to OpenTelemetry in Python

Jan 14, 2025 • 18 min. read
Vadim Korolik
CTO @ Highlight
Backend

Alert Evaluations: Incremental Merges in ClickHouse

Oct 1, 2024 • 5 min. read
Zane Mayberry
Software Engineer @ Highlight
Frontend

Monitoring Browser Applications with OpenTelemetry

Aug 27, 2024 • 5 min. read
Chris Schmitz
Software Engineer @ Highlight
Observability

How to Use OpenTelemetry to Monitor Next.js Applications

Aug 8, 2024 • 6 min. read
Chris Griffing
Technical Developer Advocate
Observability

What is OpenTelemetry and Why Should I Care?

Aug 7, 2024 • 6 min. read
Chris Griffing
Technical Developer Advocate
Company

Distributed Tracing in Next.js Apps

Jun 6, 2024 • 2 min. read
Chris Esplin
Software Engineer
Company

Highlight Pod #12: Traceloop Co-Founder Nir Gazit

May 24, 2024 • 2 min. read
Chris Esplin
Software Engineer
Company

Highlight Pod #11: Tracetest.io with Adnan Rahić

May 23, 2024 • 2 min. read
Chris Esplin
Software Engineer
Company

Highlight Pod #10: Kraft.cloud co-founder Felipe Huici

May 17, 2024 • 2 min. read
Chris Esplin
Software Engineer
Product Updates

Day 5: Self-hosted & Enterprise

May 3, 2024 • 3 min. read
Jay Khatri
CEO
Product Updates

Day 4: Cohesion

May 2, 2024 • 3 min. read
Jay Khatri
CEO
Product Updates

Day 3: Metrics & APM

May 1, 2024 • 3 min. read
Jay Khatri
CEO
Product Updates

Optimizing Clickhouse: The Tactics That Worked for Us

Apr 30, 2024 • 17 min. read
Vadim Korolik
CTO @ Highlight
Product Updates

Day 2: Logs & Traces

Apr 30, 2024 • 3 min. read
Jay Khatri
CEO
Product Updates

Next.JS Tracing on Edge Runtime with @vercel/otel

Apr 29, 2024 • 9 min. read
Vadim Korolik
CTO @ Highlight
Product Updates

Next.JS Server-side Source Maps

Apr 29, 2024 • 6 min. read
Jay Khatri
CEO
Product Updates

Day 1: SDK Additions

Apr 29, 2024 • 3 min. read
Jay Khatri
CEO
Engineering

Tracing Distributed Systems in Next.js

Apr 21, 2024 • 6 min. read
Chris Esplin
Software Engineer
Company

Highlight Pod #9: Turso co-founder Glauber Costa

Apr 17, 2024 • 2 min. read
Chris Esplin
Software Engineer
Company

Highlight Pod #8: Nimbus.dev founder Kevin Lin

Apr 11, 2024 • 2 min. read
Chris Esplin
Software Engineer
Company

Highlight Pod #7: Pipe.com co-founder Zain Allarahkia

Apr 3, 2024 • 2 min. read
Chris Esplin
Software Engineer
Engineering

Real-time Monitoring in Django: Essential Tools and Techniques

Mar 14, 2024 • 4 min. read
Vadim Korolik
CTO @ Highlight
Company

Highlight Pod #6: OpenTelemetry with Ben Sigelman

Mar 11, 2024 • 2 min. read
Chris Esplin
Software Engineer
Company

Highlight Pod #5: Replo with Yuxin Zhu

Feb 29, 2024 • 2 min. read
Chris Esplin
Software Engineer
Company

Highlight Pod #4: Modal.com with Erik Bernhardsson

Feb 20, 2024 • 2 min. read
Chris Esplin
Software Engineer
Backend

Application Tracing in .NET for Performance Monitoring

Feb 10, 2024 • 8 min. read
Vadim Korolik
CTO @ Highlight
Company

Highlight Pod #3: MagicPatterns with Alex Danilowicz

Feb 9, 2024 • 2 min. read
Chris Esplin
Software Engineer
Backend

The Ultimate Guide to Ruby Logging: Best Libraries and Practices

Feb 9, 2024 • 11 min. read
Vadim Korolik
CTO @ Highlight
Backend

The 4 Best Frameworks for Robust Logging in Java

Feb 8, 2024 • 6 min. read
Vadim Korolik
CTO @ Highlight
Product Updates

Day 5: Grafana for Highlight

Feb 2, 2024 • 3 min. read
Chris Esplin
Software Engineer
Product Updates

Day 4: Tracing SDKs for Next.js, Python, and Go/GORM

Feb 1, 2024 • 2 min. read
Chris Esplin
Software Engineer
Product Updates

Day 3: Flame Graphs and Integrated Session Views

Jan 31, 2024 • 3 min. read
Chris Esplin
Software Engineer
Product Updates

Day 2: Supercharging the Highlight Query Builder

Jan 30, 2024 • 3 min. read
Chris Esplin
Software Engineer
Engineering

Day 1: OpenTelemetry on Highlight

Jan 29, 2024 • 3 min. read
Chris Esplin
Software Engineer
Product Updates

Using Materialized Views in ClickHouse (vs. Postgres)

Jan 23, 2024 • 9 min. read
Vadim Korolik
CTO @ Highlight
Product Updates

Filtering and Sampling Highlight Ingest

Oct 18, 2023 • 3 min. read
Vadim Korolik
Co-Founder & CTO
Product Updates

Migrating from OpenSearch to Clickhouse

Oct 18, 2023 • 10 min. read
Zane Mayberry
Software Engineer @ Highlight
Company

Revamping Privacy Mode: A Better Way to Obfuscate Sensitive Data

Oct 17, 2023 • 4 min. read
Spencer Amarantides
Software Engineer @ Highlight
Engineering

An open-source session replay benchmark

Oct 17, 2023 • 14 min. read
Abhishek More
Software Engineer
Product Updates

Tracing in Beta: Another Layer of Visibility in Your Applications

Oct 17, 2023 • 3 min. read
Chris Schmitz
Software Engineer @ Highlight
Engineering

Supercharge Your Development Workflow with Code Generators

Oct 16, 2023 • 4 min. read
Chris Schmitz
Software Engineer @ Highlight
Engineering

LLM-based Grouping of Errors

Oct 16, 2023 • 7 min. read
Vadim Korolik
Co-Founder & CTO
Developer Experience

Building GitHub Enhanced Stacktraces

Oct 13, 2023 • 5 min. read
Spencer Amarantides
Software Engineer @ Highlight
Backend

Vercel Edge Runtime Support

Oct 10, 2023 • 5 min. read
Chris Esplin
Software Engineer
Product Updates

Finding Interesting Sessions with Markov Chains

Jul 20, 2023 • 6 min. read
Zane Mayberry
Software Engineer @ Highlight
Engineering

WebSocket Recording

Jul 17, 2023 • 5 min. read
Spencer Amarantides
Software Engineer @ Highlight
Product Updates

Error Monitoring - Auto Resolver, Extension Filtering, and the Instance View

Jul 17, 2023 • 2 min. read
Eric Thomas
Software Engineer
Product Updates

Building Logging Integrations at Highlight.io

Jul 11, 2023 • 4 min. read
Vadim Korolik
CTO @ Highlight
Engineering

The Network Request Details Panel

Jun 14, 2023 • 5 min. read
Chris Schmitz
Software Engineer @ Highlight
Engineering

Introducing Harold: Highlight’s Observability AI

Jun 13, 2023 • 5 min. read
Chris Schmitz
Software Engineer @ Highlight
Engineering

Using Github as a Headless CMS

Jun 1, 2023 • 12 min. read
Abhishek More
Software Engineer
Engineering

Your Source Maps Should Be Public

May 12, 2023 • 8 min. read
Chris Esplin
Software Engineer @ Highlight
Engineering

Supporting Outside Contributions at Highlight

May 9, 2023 • 7 min. read
Vadim Korolik
CTO @ Highlight
Product Updates

Day 5: Our Partners & Supporters

Apr 21, 2023 • 7 min. read
Vadim Korolik
Co-Founder & CTO
Product Updates

How we built logging as a service with ClickHouse

Apr 20, 2023 • 7 min. read
Eric Thomas
Software Engineer
Engineering

Day 4: Logging, powered by Clickhouse

Apr 20, 2023 • 7 min. read
Vadim Korolik
Co-Founder & CTO
Product Updates

Day 3: Open Sourcing our Company

Apr 19, 2023 • 5 min. read
Jay Khatri
Co-founder, Hype-man & CEO
Engineering

Day 2: Our Command bar, setup flow, and design system specs

Apr 18, 2023 • 6 min. read
Jay Khatri
Co-founder, Hype-man & CEO
Frontend

Building a Type-Safe Tailwind with vanilla-extract

Apr 18, 2023 • 13 min. read
Chris Schmitz
Software Engineer @ Highlight
Product Updates

Managing our design tokens at Highlight

Apr 17, 2023 • 9 min. read
Julian Schneider
Design Lead
Engineering

Day 1: Error Monitoring - OTEL support, filtering options, webhooks

Apr 17, 2023 • 6 min. read
Jay Khatri
Co-founder, Hype-man & CEO
Engineering

Our Commitment to OpenTelemetry

Apr 4, 2023 • 8 min. read
Vadim Korolik
CTO @ Highlight
Engineering

The 5 Best Logging Libraries for Python

Mar 9, 2023 • 8 min. read
Vadim Korolik
CTO @ Highlight
Engineering

How to Set Up Your Production AWS MSK Kafka Cluster

Feb 15, 2023 • 18 min. read
Vadim Korolik
Co-Founder & CTO
Engineering

The 5 Best Logging Libraries for Ruby

Feb 9, 2023 • 8 min. read
Vadim Korolik
CTO @ Highlight
Engineering

Publishing an NPM Package with Private pnpm Monorepo Dependencies

Jan 27, 2023 • 13 min. read
Vadim Korolik
Software Engineer @ Highlight
Engineering

The 5 Best Logging Libraries for Golang

Jan 9, 2023 • 8 min. read
Vadim Korolik
CTO @ Highlight
Engineering

InfluxDB: Visualizing Millions of Customers' Metrics using a Time Series Database

Jan 6, 2023 • 10 min. read
Vadim Korolik
Co-Founder & CTO
Engineering

EP1: Preview React components directly in VSCode?!

Jan 4, 2023 • 3 min. read
Jay Khatri
Co-founder, Hype-man & CEO
Frontend

A new way of managing errors in Highlight

Dec 8, 2022 • 6 min. read
Chris Schmitz
Software Engineer
Engineering

Introducing the new Highlight Docs

Nov 22, 2022 • 7 min. read
Vadim Korolik
Software Engineer @ Highlight
Engineering

Introducing The New Timeline Indicator

Nov 8, 2022 • 5 min. read
Sasha Aptlin
Software Engineer
Frontend

8 Tips to Help You Maximize Chrome DevTools

Nov 3, 2022 • 4 min. read
Haroon Choudery
Growth Manager
Frontend

How To Use The Chrome Inspector & Debugger

Nov 1, 2022 • 11 min. read
Oyinkansola Awosan
Developer
Frontend

The Debugging Process and Techniques for Web Applications (Part 1/2)

Oct 25, 2022 • 7 min. read
Oyinkansola Awosan
Developer
Frontend

The Debugging Process and Techniques for Web Applications (Part 2/2)

Oct 25, 2022 • 7 min. read
Oyinkansola Awosan
Developer
Backend

Introducing: Highlight's Node.js Integration

Oct 23, 2022 • 6 min. read
Jay Khatri
Co-founder, Hype-man & CEO
Engineering

Introducing: Highlight's Next.js Integration

Oct 19, 2022 • 4 min. read
Jay Khatri
Co-founder, Hype-man & CEO
Frontend

Frontend Observability

Oct 18, 2022 • 3 min. read
Haroon Choudery
Growth Manager
Backend

5 Best Node.js Logging Libraries

Oct 18, 2022 • 23 min. read
Stanley Ulili
Developer
Frontend

What are rage clicks and how to detect them

Oct 18, 2022 • 10 min. read
Denedo Oghenetega Joseph
Software Engineer
Engineering

Auto-generating OpenAPI documents with TypeScript interfaces

Oct 1, 2022 • 8 min. read
François Wouts
Developer Happiness Engineer
Engineering

3 Levels of Data Validation in a Full Stack Application With React

Sep 30, 2022 • 9 min. read
Paweł Dąbrowski
Developer
Engineering

5 Best Practices for Maintaining a Clean ReactJS App

Sep 29, 2022 • 7 min. read
Mohammad Faisal
Developer
Engineering

Is Kafka the Key? The Evolution of Highlight's Ingest

Sep 6, 2022 • 12 min. read
Vadim Korolik
Software Engineer @ Highlight
Observability

What Is Full Stack Monitoring and How Does It Work?

Sep 1, 2022 • 12 min. read
Haroon Choudery
Growth Manager
Engineering

The power of the monorepo: Keep your fullstack app in sync!

Aug 30, 2022 • 22 min. read
François Wouts
Developer Happiness Engineer
Engineering

The beauty of contact-first API design

Aug 24, 2022 • 18 min. read
François Wouts
Developer Happiness Engineer
Frontend

What is Frontend Monitoring and What Tools Help You Do It?

Aug 23, 2022 • 6 min. read
Haroon Choudery
Growth Manager
Engineering

5 strategies to monitor the health of your web application

Aug 19, 2022 • 8 min. read
Denedo Oghenetega Joseph
Software Engineer
Engineering

New Feature: Session Backfilling

Aug 16, 2022 • 6 min. read
Haroon Choudery
Growth Manager
Engineering

Configuring OpenSearch for a Write-Heavy Workload

Aug 11, 2022 • 7 min. read
Zane Mayberry
Software Engineer
Engineering

How we Animate Product Updates at Highlight

Aug 9, 2022 • 8 min. read
John Pham
Ninja 10x Engineer
Engineering

Maximizing Our Machines: Worker Pools At Highlight

Aug 4, 2022 • 3 min. read
Cameron Brill
Software Engineer
Engineering

Compression: The simple, powerful upgrade for your web stack

Aug 2, 2022 • 4 min. read
John Pham
Ninja 10x Engineer
Engineering

Compression: The simple, powerful upgrade for your web stack

Aug 1, 2022 • 4 min. read
John Pham
Ninja 10x Engineer
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