OpenTelemetry and the Vision for Unified Open Observability - OpenObservability Talks S3E01

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OpenTelemetry is one of the most fascinating and ambitious open source projects of this era. It’s currently the second most active project in the CNCF (the Cloud Native Computing Foundation), with only Kubernetes being more active. The entire industry is aligning behind this project, including incumbent monitoring vendors that were deeply vested in proprietary and closed-source agents to that end.

In this episode of OpenObservability Talks I’ll host Alolita Sharma to discuss OpenTelemetry, its origins and mission statement, as well as updates hot off the press from the recent KubeCon conference in Valencia about releases and future plans.

Alolita is co-chair of the CNCF Technical Advisory Group for Observability, member of the OpenTelemetry Governance Committee and a board director of the Unicode Consortium. She has served on the boards of the OSI and SFLC.in. Alolita has led engineering teams at Wikipedia, Twitter, PayPal, IBM and AWS. Two decades of doing open source continue to inspire her.

The episode was live-streamed on 15 June 2022 and the video is available at https://youtu.be/IK2TWOzDUBI

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You can read the recap post: https://logz.io/blog/opentelemetry-roadmap-and-latest-updates/?utm_source=devrel&utm_medium=devrel

Show Notes:

• Hot updates from KubeCon EMEA 2022
• Alolita Sharma introduction
• The state of OpenTelemetry
• When OpenTelemetry Logging is expecting GA
• The onboarding challenge of instrumentation
• Client side instrumentation and real user monitoring
• Adding continuous profiling telemetry to OpenTelemetry
• Interoperability between OpenTelemetry and Prometheus
• Challenges in OpenTelemetry and observability
• Where OpenTelemetry is heading next
• Jaeger OSS now accept OTLP (OpenTelemetry protocol)

Resources:

• OpenTelemetry Metrics reaches RC: https://opentelemetry.io/blog/2022/metrics-announcement/
• OpenTelemetry guide: https://logz.io/learn/opentelemetry-guide/
• CI/CD Observability: https://horovits.medium.com/fighting-slow-and-flaky-ci-cd-pipelines-starts-with-observability-19da2ac94677
• Jaeger can now accept OpenTelemetry protocol https://medium.com/jaegertracing/introducing-native-support-for-opentelemetry-in-jaeger-eb661be8183c
• OTel Community Day summary: http://paulsbruce.io/blog/2022/06/opentelemetry-community-day-austin-2022
• Contextual Logging in Kubernetes 1.24 https://kubernetes.io/blog/2022/05/25/contextual-logging/
• PolarSignals announced FrostDB https://www.polarsignals.com/blog/posts/2022/05/04/introducing-arcticdb/

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Dotan Horovits

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Alolita Sharma

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