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 Kubernetes, natch)…
DevOps.com: “OpenTelemetry and the Future of Monitoring Instrumentation”
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 include not…
Building the OpenTelemetry Ecosystem
Guest post by Austin Parker, Principal Developer Advocate at LightStep If the best platforms are more than matchmakers, then the best open source projects are more than utilities. It wouldn’t be incorrect or inconceivable to suggest that the…
SearchITOperations: "OpenTelemetry aids distributed tracing, Kubernetes monitoring"
The OpenTelemetry project defines a standard set of data collectors that support multiple observability tools, which offers significant advantages for Kubernetes monitoring, early adopters say.
OpenTelemetry: Future-Proofing Your Instrumentation
Guest post originally published on the New Relic blog by John Watson, lead engineer, and Lavanya Chockalingam, senior product marketing manager at New Relic As a developer, you care about the performance of your applications, and you know just how…
OpenTelemetry best practices (overview part 2/2)
Guest post originally published on the Espagon blog by Ran Ribenzaft, co-founder and CEO at Epsagon In the second article of our OpenTelemetry series, we’ll focus on best practices for using OpenTelemetry, after covering the OpenTelemetry ecosystem and its components in…
Observability of multi-party computation with OpenTelemetry
You have seen the impact of observability in enhancing the understanding and pace of development of complex systems. With the latest innovation in managing logs through the OpenTelemetry project, we can now combine together multiple blockchain systems to…
Introduction to OpenTelemetry (Overview Part 1/2)
Guest post originally published on the Epsagon blog by Ran Ribenzaft, co-founder and CEO at Epsagon OpenTelemetry is an exciting new observability ecosystem with a number of leading monitoring companies behind it. It is a provider-agnostic observability solution supported by…
How OpenTelemetry is eating the world
It has been said that open source software is eating the world and in the observability space, the project behind this movement is OpenTelemetry. The project recently entered beta and is quickly becoming the standard for instrumentation and…
A brief history of OpenTelemetry (So Far)
by Ben Sigelman, co-creator of OpenTracing and member of the OpenTelemetry governing committee, and Morgan McLean, Product Manager for OpenCensus at Google since the project’s inception After many months of planning, discussion, prototyping, more discussion, and more planning, OpenTracing…