Getting Started with OpenTelemetry - Ted Young, Lightstep

Getting Started with OpenTelemetry - Ted Young, Lightstep
This talk introduces OpenTelemetry to developers and operators. First, learn about each open telemetry component, the core concepts, and how they all fit together to provide flexible and robust observability. Second, learn the easiest way to set up and deploy opentelemetry across your entire system.

[@rajeshantony74]

awesome!!

[@dav1dshu1]

Very good introduction. I have a question: My application has multiple components that are loosely coupled through Kafka. The message gets created in the first module and sends it to a topic. Multiple modules consume the message. Some modules will create new messages to other topics. The question is, can Kafka instrumented to support OpenTelemetry? Thanks.

[@CeezGeez]

How much overhead does adding this context object (which can grow in size) cause?

[@dimitrisfinas1225]

the context object is a list of key/values so it's quite small (100-500bytes), but it can be bigger if you attach too much log events

[@CeezGeez]

@@dimitrisfinas1225 thanks!