OpenTelemetry Agent and Collector - Telemetry Built-in Into All Software

Overview

Explore the future of software telemetry in this 26-minute conference talk from CNCF's KubeCon + CloudNativeCon. Discover how OpenTelemetry Agent and Collector enable built-in telemetry for all software, making observability effortless. Learn about the reference architecture, collector components, and auto-instrumentation techniques. Witness a demo of automatic Java application instrumentation and collector configuration for uploading high-quality telemetry to your preferred backend. Gain insights into the roadmap for unified telemetry exposure across all software and understand how application owners can focus on building great software while effortlessly obtaining insights into application behavior and reliability.

Syllabus

Intro
Cloud Native Telemetry
Reference Architecture: OpenTelemetry
But why? Offload responsibility from the application
Collector Architecture
Core (Maintainers) Components
Contrib (Community) Components
The goal of auto-instrumentation
OpenTelemetry Java auto-instrumentation
What if I want custom telemetry? • You can start with auto-instrumentation
Backend monitoring systems • Open Source
Other languages
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CNCF [Cloud Native Computing Foundation]

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