OpenTelemetry Tracing — It's Not That Simple
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An overview of OpenTelemetry tracing challenges: explains how OpenTelemetry works for distributed tracing, identifies practical difficulties in instrumenting applications and interpreting traces, and discusses approaches and tools for capturing, exporting, and analyzing trace data to improve observability.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:50Slow system problem
- 5:02Tracing solution
- 9:19Tracing standards history
- 14:37OpenTelemetry deployment
- 21:17Java thread tracing
- 28:01Context propagation in Outbox
- 35:27Span relationships
- 37:14Data overload challenge
- 45:02Collector and sampling
- 48:29Summary
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