The Fundamentals of OpenTelemetry
summary
Builds a simple Go client/server from scratch while typing live, configures the OpenTelemetry SDK and the Lightstep distro, and proves context propagation works end-to-end by injecting headers (b3/tracecontext) into HTTP requests and extracting them on the server. Demonstrates creating tracers and child spans, recording errors and events, attaching baggage (a flowed project id), and combining 5 requests into a single trace; spans arrive in the collector/back end and show correct attributes, timings, and correlations.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Intro
- 3:28Basic Concepts
- 9:01Context Propagation
- 11:39Code Example
- 12:14Configuration
- 13:35Setup
- 15:29Demo
- 26:14Wrapup
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