Practical Introduction to OpenTelemetry Tracing for Developers

Dive into a practical introduction to OpenTelemetry tracing for developers in this 42-minute conference talk from Devoxx Greece 2024. Explore the critical importance of tracking request flows across distributed systems, especially in the era of microservices. Learn about the three pillars of observability: logging, metrics, and tracing. Discover how OpenTelemetry provides an open standard for these pillars, with compatibility from established tools like Jaeger and Zipkin. Through a simple use case demonstration, gain insights into implementing OpenTelemetry in your distributed architecture and understand its potential benefits for your development projects.