Introduction to OpenTelemetry - Observability Framework and Implementation

Dive into a comprehensive video tutorial on OpenTelemetry featuring industry experts Amy Tobey and Liz Fong-Jones. Explore the fundamentals of this observability framework, including its components, implementation, and practical applications. Learn how to set up OpenTelemetry, add gRPC interceptors, initialize the framework, and export data to various backends. Gain hands-on experience in creating traces, adding context, and instrumenting database calls. Discover how OpenTelemetry can enhance your ability to observe, manage, and debug cloud-native software through detailed explanations and live coding demonstrations.

- Holding screen
- Introductions
- What is OpenTelemetry?
- What was setup in advance
- Looking at an OpenTelemetry example
- Adding the gRPC interceptors
- Adding the OpenTelemetry initialisation code and stdout exporter
- Triggering our first trace
- Adding the Honeycomb exporter
- Adding additional context to our traces
- Adding extra spans / instrumenting database calls