Native Instrumentation for Open Source Software with OpenTelemetry

Explore native instrumentation for open source software using OpenTelemetry in this informative conference talk. Discover how OpenTelemetry enables OSS projects to participate in runtime observability while giving end users control over data processing. Learn about the benefits of OpenTelemetry instrumentation, guidelines for natively instrumenting OSS libraries, and how to navigate potential challenges. Gain insights into the current state of the OpenTelemetry project, including stable APIs and long-term support. Understand methods for combining tracing and metrics to simplify instrumentation, and find out how to get involved with the native instrumentation effort. Delve into topics such as context propagation, client libraries, API stability, instrumentation opt-in, performance considerations, sampling, overhead, benchmarking, logs, and user costs.