Troubleshooting and Monitoring Production Applications using OpenTelemetry
Talkat JCON Europe 2023 · on Thursday, 2023-06-22· at 13:00· Cinema 5, Im Mediapark 1, 50670 Köln, Germany·
summary
Shows how OpenTelemetry plus a local collector and the OpenTelemetry Java agent actually find root causes in minutes: a demo reproduces a memory/latency problem, traces reveal a recommendation-service span with rising duration and an attribute cache_hit=false, comparing cache_hit=true vs false confirms the hotspot, and toggling a product-catalog feature flag fixes responses. Explains automatic instrumentation, collector benefits (batching, filtering) and uses the teletrace demo to visualize traces while the collector offloads export and keeps app overhead low.
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chapters (13)
- 0:00Introduction to observability
- 1:45What is observability
- 3:29Challenges in microservices
- 6:18Three pillars of observability
- 9:11OpenTelemetry overview
- 12:45Automatic instrumentation
- 14:50Why use the OpenTelemetry collector
- 15:12OpenTelemetry Java agent
- 17:19OpenTelemetry backends
- 19:04OpenTelemetry community
- 21:16Memory leak use case
- 24:54Live demo with Teletrace
- 28:51Key takeaways and Q&A
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