Observability For You and Me with OpenTelemetry
summary
Introductory roadmap to OpenTelemetry that names what gets built and why: an Collector that ingests OTLP and can prefilter or drop data before exporting, the OTLP protocol for pushing traces metrics and now logs, and auto-instrumentation libraries that let Java and other runtimes emit spans with zero code changes. Expect cost and scale tradeoffs — examples cited include 30 days producing ~0.5 TB of telemetry and a quoted $65M cloud bill at large scale — and beware cardinality explosions.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Observability and OpenTelemetry intro
- 7:39Observability data at scale
- 13:16What OpenTelemetry is
- 17:52How collectors work
- 21:23OpenTelemetry quick start
- 24:31OpenTelemetry in CNCF
- 25:36Q&A
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