Philipp Krenn – The State of OpenTelemetry

Learn about the current state of OpenTelemetry, a cloud-native observability standard, and discover how it enables easier insights from applications, automatic instrumentation, and end-to-end traceability across microservices.

Key takeaways

OpenTelemetry is a growing standard for cloud-native observability that aims to make it easier to get insights from an application.
Observability requires three components: logs, metrics, and tracing.
OpenTelemetry provides tools to collect data from distributed systems and send it to a central hub.
Automatic instrumentation is part of OpenTelemetry, allowing teams to collect data from services without extra effort.
Manual instrumentation can also be performed in areas where automatic instrumentation is not feasible.
OpenTelemetry can be implemented in various programming languages such as Java, JavaScript, and Python.
Collecting sampling data allows for focus on specific services or requests.
Using OpenTelemetry can help bridge the gap between microservices and provide end-to-end traceability.
The platform provides different export formats to be used depending on the vendor choice.
W3C’s Trace Context effort is also being standardized to help vendors integrate their tracing platforms.
Key concepts include agents, exporters, instrumented applications, wire protocols, tracing, and metrics.

Philipp Krenn – The State of OpenTelemetry

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