CNCF Webinar - The What's and Why's of Tracing

Overview

Explore the fundamentals and importance of distributed tracing in this 40-minute CNCF webinar. Discover how tracing connects customer experiences to backend services, learn about the OpenTelemetry specifications and architecture, and understand how to tailor traces to your organization's needs. Delve into microservice architectures, trace visualization, and the integration of logs in distributed systems. Examine the components, specifications, and reference architecture of OpenTelemetry, including its tracing and semantic conventions. Gain insights into evidence-based debugging, automatic trace implementation, and problem-solving strategies. Learn to ask critical questions about your organization's observability needs and explore the roadmap for effective tracing implementation.

Syllabus

Intro
EXAMPLE MICROSERVICE ARCHITECTURE
DISTRIBUTED TRACE VISUALIZATION
DISTRIBUTED TRACE DETAILS
LOGS IN MICROSERVICE ARCHITECTURE
Data Collection
What is OpenTelemetry?
Cloud Native Telemetry
What problems are you trying to solve?
Gaps in current observability method
Goals of tracing Questions to ask yourself and of your organization
Components Specifications
Reference Architecture: OpenTelemetry
Tracing and Semantic Conventions
Resource SDK + Semantic Conventions
OpenTelemetry and Logs (Incubating!)
Observability drives Evidence- based Debugging
Objectives
Getting Started: Traces (Automatic)
Roadmap
Problem solving Imagine being paged
A span for everything or bare minimum
Next Steps