OpenTelemetry: The Vision, Reality, and How to Get Started

Explore OpenTelemetry's vision, current state, and implementation in this 34-minute conference talk by Dotan Horovits from Logz.io. Discover how this open-source project aims to provide a unified framework for collecting observability data, addressing the challenge of multiple vendors and tools with disparate APIs, SDKs, agents, and collectors. Learn about the components of OpenTelemetry, including the specification, client libraries, collector, and OTLP protocol. Gain practical insights on getting started with OpenTelemetry in your own system, understand its main achievements, and explore the project's working groups. Get answers to common questions and hear from project maintainers in this comprehensive overview of OpenTelemetry's potential to revolutionize system observability.

Intro
How many tools do companies use
Dotan Horovits
The Vision
The Reality
What is OpenTelemetry
OpenTelemetry Specification
Client Libraries
Collector
OTLP
Working Groups
Traces
Main Achievement
How to Get Started
Beginners Guide
Questions
Maintainers