Practical Introduction to OpenTelemetry Tracing

Dive into a comprehensive 28-minute video presentation on OpenTelemetry tracing, exploring its critical role in distributed systems and microservices architectures. Learn about the three pillars of observability - logging, metrics, and tracing - and discover how OpenTelemetry provides an open standard for these essential components. Explore the evolution from proprietary tracking tools like Jaeger and Zipkin to their integration with OpenTelemetry. Through a practical demonstration, gain insights into implementing OpenTelemetry in your distributed architecture and understand its potential benefits for your projects.

Practical Introduction to OpenTelemetry Tracing by Nicolas Frankel