https://tracefox.io/learn Plain-English, opinionated guides on observability and ClickHouse. en https://tracefox.io/business-aligned-observability https://tracefox.io/business-aligned-observability Business-aligned observability connects telemetry to business events and customer context — so you can answer not just what broke, but what it cost and who it affected. Thu, 18 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://tracefox.io/observability https://tracefox.io/observability Observability explained: monitoring vs observability, logs, metrics, traces, and why it's an analytics problem. Sat, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://tracefox.io/opentelemetry https://tracefox.io/opentelemetry OpenTelemetry explained: the Collector, OTLP, instrumentation, why it ends vendor lock-in, and how it feeds ClickHouse. Sat, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://tracefox.io/clickhouse https://tracefox.io/clickhouse What ClickHouse is, why it fits observability, and an honest comparison vs Grafana Cloud, Honeycomb, SigNoz, and Datadog. Sun, 15 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://tracefox.io/clickstack-options https://tracefox.io/clickstack-options The three ClickStack deployment models compared on cost, management overhead, tuning, and data ownership — and how to choose. Mon, 16 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://tracefox.io/tutorials/architecture https://tracefox.io/tutorials/architecture How a production observability platform fits together on ClickHouse, OpenTelemetry, HyperDX, and Grafana — and the build-vs-buy case that makes it worth running yourself. Wed, 17 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://tracefox.io/tutorials/slo-alerting https://tracefox.io/tutorials/slo-alerting Error budgets in plain English, a ClickHouse recording-rule rollup that makes long-window SLOs cheap, and multi-window burn-rate alerts that page on user pain — not CPU. Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://tracefox.io/tutorials/grafana-dashboards https://tracefox.io/tutorials/grafana-dashboards Wire Grafana to ClickHouse and provision RED, latency, and dependency dashboards as code — versioned and reproducible, with no per-seat lock-in. Wed, 15 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://tracefox.io/tutorials/hardening https://tracefox.io/tutorials/hardening TLS everywhere, secrets without plaintext, least-privilege ClickHouse users, network policies, and SSO — the security review a client's team will actually run. Wed, 29 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://tracefox.io/tutorials/day-2-operations https://tracefox.io/tutorials/day-2-operations Upgrades that roll ClickHouse safely, backups to object storage, a tested restore drill, and the runbook that turns 'we built it' into 'we can run it'. Wed, 12 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://tracefox.io/tutorials/local-stack https://tracefox.io/tutorials/local-stack One command brings the entire platform up on a local Kubernetes cluster — ClickHouse, the OTel collectors, HyperDX, and Grafana — so you can audit it before you trust it. Wed, 24 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://tracefox.io/tutorials/scaling-cost https://tracefox.io/tutorials/scaling-cost Shards, replicas, S3 tiering, and materialized views — plus the compression and $/GB math that makes the build-vs-buy case concrete at high volume. Wed, 05 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://tracefox.io/tutorials/otel-collector https://tracefox.io/tutorials/otel-collector The gateway/agent split, OTLP ingest, batching and backpressure, and redacting PII before anything is written to storage. Wed, 08 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://tracefox.io/tutorials/clickhouse-schemas https://tracefox.io/tutorials/clickhouse-schemas Why owning the schema — ordering keys, codecs, TTL, S3 tiering, and materialized views — is the single biggest lever on the cost and speed of the whole platform. Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT