OpenTelemetry in Practice - issue 1
Welcome to OpenTelemetry in Practice! In this monthly newsletter you’ll find pointers, resources, and news–the latest in teaching your software to teach you what’s going on.
What is all this? Getting Started with OpenTelemetry
Three great pieces came out this month that help you take your first steps into OpenTelemetry–two guides to the collector from Aspecto and Honeycomb, and a beginner’s guide from the developer Magsther.
Start here if you’re new to OpenTelemetry: A beginner’s guide to OpenTelemetry | by Magsther
Continue here if you’re ready to dig into the OpenTelemetry Collector: A Friendly Guide for Devs
And this will help you test your collector: Send a Test Span Through an OpenTelemetry Collector
What are all these words? Concepts in OpenTelemetry
Frankel explores the ways in which OpenTelemetry implements the W3C trace context standard, with a deep dive into both topics.
End-to-end tracing with OpenTelemetry
Zack Berg of New Relic explores exponential histograms, a tool to unlock the power of OpenTelemetry metrics by exploring distributions of measurements.
OpenTelemetry Exponential Histograms
Are you excited yet? Emerging Developments in OpenTelemetry
The Vision For Profiling in OpenTelemetry - add your use cases and your ideas to this GitHub discussion.
https://github.com/open-telemetry/oteps/pull/212?utm_source=o11y.news&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2022-09-12
Q: Why do I care about OpenTelemetry? – everyone not currently reading this email
A: Why learn about OpenTelemetry? It looks great on your resume! (just kidding.)
Observability is now a growing best practice in development and operations of software. Software is complex, and while we’d love to keep it simple, we’d rather it be useful! Powerful software is complex, so let’s support that complexity instead of hiding it. Observability gives us the power to wield more complexity.
And OpenTelemetry is the modern, open-source, best-practice implementation of observability. Instead of “rolling out New Relic” or “incorporating Honeycomb” you can bake observability into your software. Library imports, custom implementation code, and data pipeline are all OpenTelemetry-standard.
That means OpenTelemetry expertise will increase your power in this job and your whole career.
Got a question for Miss O11y? misso11y@honeycomb.io or reply to this newsletter.
Who else is into this? Upcoming OpenTelemetry Events
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The next ones are
Introducing new resources for OpenTelemetry end users to connect and discover best practices | OpenTelemetry
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Special Section: Watch this Space
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