Where's the Auto in Auto-Instrumentation? A Look at Current Automation Strategies with OpenTelemetry

Explore a comprehensive technical talk that demystifies the concept of "Automatic Instrumentation" across different contexts and implementations. Dive deep into various automation mechanisms supported by OpenTelemetry across 11 programming languages. Learn about code-path instrumentation at the library level through an examination of the Node.js OpenTelemetry Extension and its supported JavaScript libraries. Understand the implementation of automatic instrumentation via attachment methods in Java and Python, as well as injection techniques using the OTel Operator for DotNet, Java, and NodeJS. Get a glimpse into the future of automatic instrumentation for compiled binaries through an analysis of the Go instrumentation library built with eBPF. Master the fundamentals of achieving end-to-end observability coverage without custom code while maintaining minimal setup requirements.