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Founder/CTO Perspectives: The Future of Distributed Tracing

on YouTube 42m
Talkat SREcon23 Americas · 2023-03-21..03-23· [observability]

speakers

name:Charity Majors
website:https://www.honeycomb.io/blog
name:David Cramer
x:zeeg
name:Maggie Johnson-Pint
links:none on file

resources

video:https://youtu.be/V8ydf2mkUgY
slides:none on file

summary

Compares Honeycomb, Sentry and Stanza approaches and makes concrete claims: arbitrarily wide structured data becomes the canonical source of truth from which metrics are derived, auto-instrumentation is the biggest practical gap (especially JavaScript/mobile), and OpenTelemetry is useful but immature for clients. Describes a working UI feature that bubble-up diffs dimensions to find root causes, experiments with injecting continuous profiling to fill span gaps, and recommends incremental rollout—instrument as you debug rather than big rip‑and‑replace.

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chapters (12)

  1. 0:00Introduction
  2. 4:03Distributed tracing purpose
  3. 12:52Debugging with observability
  4. 15:41OpenTelemetry challenges
  5. 23:08Logs insufficient for debugging
  6. 25:34eBPF in observability
  7. 28:38Client-side instrumentation
  8. 31:04APM tools critique
  9. 34:39Switch to distributed tracing
  10. 37:54AI Ops future
  11. 39:39Tracing versus observability
  12. 41:05Closing & Q&A

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