OpenTelemetry: You Won't Be Able to Live Without Production Monitoring
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Overview of OpenTelemetry as a monitoring solution for distributed systems, explaining what OpenTelemetry is and how it integrates into application development. Presents a production-focused, experience-based approach to deploying OpenTelemetry at scale (examples include monitoring 400+ microservices), with concrete techniques and best practices for instrumenting an existing stack and optimizing resource use.
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chapters (14)
- 0:00OpenTelemetry intro
- 1:03Microservice monitoring
- 3:28Telemetry pillars
- 5:35OpenTelemetry origin
- 8:00Unified monitoring benefits
- 10:06Agent instrumentation
- 13:17Collector role
- 15:01OpenTelemetry on K8s
- 19:51Trace sampling
- 22:18Live demo: order tracking
- 26:47Trace analysis with Tempo
- 27:50Metrics with Prometheus
- 29:35K8s autoscaling
- 35:17Q&A
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