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# Observability and instrumentation via OpenTelemetry


- **Date:** Friday, Jul 19, 2024
- **Time:** 15:00–15:30 (30 min)
- **Room:** Virtual Stage 1
- **Event:** World Congress 2024

## Description

This talk will cover the basics of observability - what are metrics, logs, and traces, and what is the difference between them. Then we will talk about what instrumentation is. Then we will talk about how instrumentation is meant to be standardized via the open-source telemetry solution OpenTelemetry. Finally, we will see how instrumentation can be done via OpenTelemetry in Python. We will see a live demo in detail of how tracing works, all based on open-source examples hosted on my own GitHub account.

## Speaker

### [Karl Johan Grahn](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/@karl-johan-grahn)

Head of Engineering at Stakater


## Related talks at this congress

- [Startup Presentation: Observability-driven development with OpenTelemetry](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2024/sessions/328-startup-presentation) — Adnan
- [Startup Presentation: OpenTelemetry-native: The future of Observability](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2024/sessions/137-startup-presentation) — Marcel Sim
- [Advanced Kubernetes Monitoring with OpenTelemetry: Harnessing the Power of Open Standards](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2024/sessions/111-advanced-kubernetes) — Harry Kimpel
- [It's a bird. It's a plane. No... It's OpenTelemetry](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2024/sessions/115-it-s-a-bird-it-s-a) — Achim, Andre Pietsch