End-to-end visibility in the cloud w/OpenTelemetry
summary
OpenTelemetry captures traces (trace spec is GA), metrics (prototype), and experimental logs, via language SDKs (Java, Go, Python, JavaScript), an intermediary OpenTelemetry collector that acts as agent and exporter, and either manual SDK APIs or automatic instrumentation to add spans. Exports go to Jaeger, Zipkin, AWS X‑Ray, Splunk, etc. Demo shows a manual JavaScript server creating custom spans and a 12–20 service “hipster shop” deployed on EKS/EC2 analyzed in Splunk Observability Cloud with a live dependency map and host metrics.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:19Managing scaled services is easier than ever?
- 2:28and you don't understand the full picture
- 3:33Filling in the pieces of the observability puzzle
- 6:48Other components
- 9:32Integration points
- 13:38Distributions
- 18:49BOUTIQUE
- 24:15Community
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