Govind Kumar Lohar — Co-Founder & CTPO at GrackerAI. Fullstack and polyglot developer, ex-VP of Product & Engineering at LoginRadius. Writing about engineering, product and building AI products.https://heygovind.com/https://heygovind.com/blog/best-apm-for-go/https://heygovind.com/blog/best-apm-for-go/Go has no runtime monkey-patching, so real auto-instrumentation needs eBPF. The three options, plus pprof, goroutine leaks, GC metrics and context propagation.Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTapmgoobservabilityhttps://heygovind.com/blog/best-apm-for-java/https://heygovind.com/blog/best-apm-for-java/How -javaagent bytecode instrumentation works, what GC and pool dashboards should show, and which APM tools handle Spring Boot and legacy app servers.Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTapmjavaobservabilityspring-boothttps://heygovind.com/blog/hello/https://heygovind.com/blog/hello/After sixteen years of writing on other people’s platforms, a place I actually control.Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTmetawritinghttps://heygovind.com/blog/best-apm-for-nodejs/https://heygovind.com/blog/best-apm-for-nodejs/How Node APM agents really work: require patching, ESM loader hooks, AsyncLocalStorage, event loop lag, worker threads and source maps — and which tool to pick.Sun, 16 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTapmnodejsobservabilityhttps://heygovind.com/blog/best-apm-for-python/https://heygovind.com/blog/best-apm-for-python/WSGI vs ASGI instrumentation, gunicorn fork failures, Celery context breaks, Django N+1 detection, the GIL and CPU metrics — and which Python APM to pick.Sun, 16 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTapmpythondjangoobservabilityhttps://heygovind.com/blog/datadog-vs-new-relic-vs-dynatrace/https://heygovind.com/blog/datadog-vs-new-relic-vs-dynatrace/How the three big APM platforms actually differ — integration breadth, consolidated billing, and automatic dependency discovery — and which one fits your team.Sat, 15 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTapmobservabilitymonitoringhttps://heygovind.com/blog/grafana-cloud-vs-datadog/https://heygovind.com/blog/grafana-cloud-vs-datadog/This is a lock-in decision, not a feature comparison. What open standards buy you, what Datadog polish buys you, and the engineering hours each path costs.Sat, 15 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTobservabilitygrafanadatadoghttps://heygovind.com/blog/datadog-alternatives/https://heygovind.com/blog/datadog-alternatives/Teams leave Datadog for three different reasons, and each one points at a different replacement. Segment by your reason before you shortlist anything.Fri, 14 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTapmobservabilitydatadoghttps://heygovind.com/blog/new-relic-alternatives/https://heygovind.com/blog/new-relic-alternatives/Why teams leave consumption-based, per-user APM pricing, which replacements fit which motivation, and what breaks when you split one platform into three tools.Fri, 14 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTapmobservabilitymonitoringhttps://heygovind.com/blog/best-open-source-apm-tools/https://heygovind.com/blog/best-open-source-apm-tools/How the genuinely open observability projects differ on storage architecture, what sits behind the open-core wall, and what running them actually costs in engineer hours.Thu, 13 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTapmobservabilityopen-sourcehttps://heygovind.com/blog/best-self-hosted-observability-stacks/https://heygovind.com/blog/best-self-hosted-observability-stacks/How to assemble Prometheus, Loki, Tempo and Grafana into a working stack, size the storage, survive cardinality, and decide who gets paged when monitoring breaks.Thu, 13 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTobservabilityself-hostedapmhttps://heygovind.com/blog/best-apm-tools-for-enterprise/https://heygovind.com/blog/best-apm-tools-for-enterprise/Enterprise APM is a procurement decision: SSO, RBAC, data residency, audit logs, on-prem options and support SLAs eliminate most vendors before features matter.Wed, 12 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTapmobservabilityenterprisehttps://heygovind.com/blog/best-free-apm-tools/https://heygovind.com/blog/best-free-apm-tools/The honest anatomy of an APM free tier: retention windows, cardinality caps, forced sampling, seat limits, and what gets silently dropped before you see it.Wed, 12 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTapmobservabilityopen-sourcehttps://heygovind.com/blog/best-apm-tools-for-startups/https://heygovind.com/blog/best-apm-tools-for-startups/What a startup actually needs from APM: fast time to first value, a free tier that survives growth, and knowing exactly which metric triggers the bill jump.Tue, 11 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTapmobservabilitystartupshttps://heygovind.com/blog/best-apm-tools/https://heygovind.com/blog/best-apm-tools/A category map of APM and observability tools, what OpenTelemetry changed about vendor lock-in, why pricing units make comparison hard, and a decision tree.Tue, 11 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTapmobservabilityopentelemetryhttps://heygovind.com/blog/junior-to-vp/https://heygovind.com/blog/junior-to-vp/What actually compounds when you stay somewhere long enough to live with your own decisions.Mon, 10 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTcareerengineeringmanagement