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Understand OpenTelemetry part 2: core components

Posted on August 26, 2021 | Alan West and Lavanya Chockalingam

Guest post originally published on New Relic’s blog by Alan West and Lavanya Chockalingam This blog post is part of the Understand OpenTelemetry series. Part 1 gave an overview to OpenTelemetry and discussed why it is the future of instrumentation. Now in…


Mentorship Spotlight: Second time lucky with OpenTelemetry

Posted on August 13, 2021 | Ndubuisi Onyemenam

Guest post originally published on Medium by Ndubuisi Onyemenam Luck Is What Happens When Preparation Meets Opportunity Seneca The first time I applied to OpenTelemetry for the Linux Foundation Internship was for the Q3-Q4 round of 2020. I received a…


Trace-based testing with OpenTelemetry: Meet open source Malabi

Posted on August 11, 2021 | Yuri Shkuro + Michael Haberman

Community guest post by Yuri Shkuro, creator and maintainer of Jaeger, and Michael Haberman, Co-Founder & CTO of Aspecto If you deal with distributed applications at scale, you probably use tracing. And if you use tracing…


What is OpenTelemetry and why is it the future of instrumentation?

Posted on August 6, 2021 | Lavanya Chockalingam

Guest post originally published on New Relic’s blog by Lavanya Chockalingam of New Relic This blog is the first part in the Understand OpenTelemetry series. Part 1 begins with an overview of what OpenTelemetry is and why this open standard is the…


From distributed tracing to APM: Taking OpenTelemetry and Jaeger up a level

Posted on April 29, 2021

Guest post originally on Medium by Dotan Horovits, a CNCF speaker, a co-organizer of the local CNCF chapter in Tel Aviv Monitoring Microservices Performance with Aggregated Trace Metrics It’s no secret that Jaeger and OpenTelemetry are…


InfoQ: “OpenTelemetry Specification Reaches 1.0 with Stability Guarantees and New Release Candidates”

Posted on March 7, 2021

The OpenTelemetry specification has been promoted to v1.0.0. This milestone includes improved stability and backwards compatibility guarantees as well as API and SDK release candidates available for a number of languages. With this release both the…


SiliconANGLE: “OpenTelemetry attracts major enterprise interest in drive to set common observability standard”

Posted on March 1, 2021

Without traffic signals and signage, life would not be pleasant on local streets; motorists would drive in opposing lanes and chaos would ensue. A stop sign is a reliable standard; it means the same thing no…


Fundamentals of OpenTelemetry

Posted on November 30, 2020

In this webinar, we will go over all you need to know to get started with OpenTelemetry. We will review the project architecture, major components, important concepts that make OpenTelemetry different from traditional logging, a demonstration…


The Register: “Ever wondered what exactly is going on in those containers? OpenTelemetry edges toward GA, emits tracing specification release candidate”

Posted on October 22, 2020

The OpenTelemetry community has taken another step toward General Availability with the first release candidate of the tracing specification. It’s quite the milestone for the project, which modestly describes itself as the second most active (behind…


DevOps.com: “OpenTelemetry and the Future of Monitoring Instrumentation”

Posted on October 13, 2020

The project, OpenTelemetry, was officially started in May 2019. It is a Cloud Native Computing Foundation sandbox project and came out of the merger of the OpenCensus and OpenTracing projects. They’ve since expanded their goal to…