OpenTelemetry

Overview

OpenTelemetry

OpenTelemetry is a set of APIs, SDKs, tooling and integrations that are designed for the creation and management of telemetry data such as traces, metrics, and logs.

• Website
• Documentation

Facts

• Bring your own backend. OpenTelemetry provides the specification and collector only.
  • KubeCon NA 2021: OpenTelemetry Collector Deployment Patterns
• Support for traces, metrics, logs.
• Prometheus vs. OpenTelemetry metrics

Hot Topics

• Observability with OpenTelemetry is a great learning series by Thomas Stringer in 6 parts, covering Introduction, Instrumentation, Exporting, Collector, Propagation, Ecosystem.
• Learn how to instrument an Apache HTTP Server with OpenTelemetry
• OpenTelemetry for Python Developers
• Learn OpenTelemetry tracing using a lightweight microservice project
• Logz.io created a great learning series for OpenTelemetry getting started in various languages:
  • Beginner's Guide to OpenTelemetry
  • Auto-Instrumenting Ruby Apps with OpenTelemetry
  • Auto-Instrumenting Python Apps with OpenTelemetry
  • Instrumentation for C# .NET Apps with OpenTelemetry
• How auto-instrumentation can help
• CI/CD Observability: Tracing with OpenTelemetry (GitLab proposal)