An event is a specific action that takes place in an application. This could be a user clicking a button on a website, an error being logged, or a change in the state of a database. Events are essential for understanding the behavior and performance of a system.
We recommend to emit events from within your application when "something happens", such that these could be captured by your observability platform and used to detect, diagnose and resolve issues and anomalies.
You can record event as logs or as span events in distributed tracing.
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