OpenTelemetry Auto-Instrumentation Deep Dive

Dive deep into OpenTelemetry auto-instrumentation in this 36-minute conference talk by Carlos Alberto Cortez and Alex Boten from LightStep. Explore the architecture of auto-instrumentation libraries, a core feature of the OpenTelemetry initiative. Learn about out-of-the-box integrations with popular open-source libraries like Spring, Django, and Rails. Discover how to configure these libraries to export telemetry data to various tracing and metrics backends, including Jaeger and Prometheus. Gain insights into the challenges and possibilities of sharing open-source integrations between auto and manual instrumentation. Understand how auto-instrumentation enables immediate gathering of observability data without modifying the codebase, supporting multiple programming languages such as Java, Python, Ruby, Node.js, and .NET.