Enabling Observability with OpenTelemetry

Overview

Explore the fundamentals of observability and OpenTelemetry in this 43-minute conference talk. Delve into the three pillars of observability, focusing on distributed tracing and its components. Learn about OpenTelemetry's architecture, project status, and the concept of separation of concerns. Discover how to instrument applications and libraries using OpenTelemetry API, including context propagation techniques. Examine instrumentation libraries, exporters, and autoinstrumentation capabilities. Gain practical insights through API examples, exporter demonstrations in Python, and an overview of OpenTelemetry's demo architecture and agents.

Syllabus

Introducción
Outline
Three Pillars of Observability
Distributed Tracing
Trace - Span - Attributes
Trace Example
OpenTelemetry - Introduction
Why OpenTelemetry?
OpenTelemetry - Architecture
Separation of Concerns
OpenTelemetry - Project Status
Instrumenting an Application/Library
OpenTelemetry - API Example
Context Propagation
Local Context - Manual
Local Context - Automatic
Distributed Context
Instrumentation Libraries
Exporters
Exporter Example in Python
OpenTelemetry - Demo Architecture
OpenTelemetry - Autoinstrumentation
OpenTelemetry - Agents