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How to Inspect React Server Component Activity with Next.js and OpenTelemetry
As web developers, we've become accustomed to the incredible power of browser dev tools. Need to understand why a component isn't rendering correctly? Pop open the inspector! Want to trace a network request? The Network tab is your best friend. Debugging, profiling, and understanding frontend code has never been easier. Until now.
OpenTelemetry(often shortened to OTel) is an open-source observability framework that provides a vendor-agnostic standard for instrumenting, generating, collecting, and exporting telemetry data. Before we discuss the setup instructions, let's consider a small real-life usage example based on a feature we recently released that required optimization (yeah, not an unrealistic demo app 🎉). By creating custom spans, you can gain a deeper understanding of the performance and behavior of your Server Components, allowing you to optimize your code and identify potential issues more effectively.
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