WeAreDevelopers LIVE • Dec 15, 2023

Hands on with OpenTelemetry

Nočnica Mellifera

Is microservice complexity turning your architecture into chaos? Discover how OpenTelemetry standardizes metrics, logs, and traces to prevent vendor lock-in and radically simplify distributed debugging.

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#1 about 5 min

Understanding observability and time to understanding metrics

How observability calculates the speed of discovering an issue and understanding its underlying mechanism.

#2 about 3 min

Understanding why microservices complicate system observability architecture

How the shift from monolithic patterns to chaotic microservices creates extreme system mapping complexity.

#3 about 4 min

Centralizing data with the OpenTelemetry collector component

How the OpenTelemetry collector standardizes and collates code-level instrumentation data across microservice environments.

#4 about 1 min

Capturing system overviews using broad statistical metrics

Why metrics serve as an easy-to-store baseline solution for tracking high-level system behaviors.

#5 about 4 min

Integrating existing application logs into OpenTelemetry pipelines

How standard log collection remains a primary observability method that feeds directly into automated collector pipelines.

#6 about 4 min

Connecting microservice requests via standardized distributed tracing

Connecting stateless microservice time spans to analyze full request propagation paths automatically.

#7 about 6 min

Managing metric explosion from high cardinality data variables

Balancing specific user variables against massive database storage spikes caused by namespace explosion.

#8 about 4 min

Filtering observability data dynamically without altering codebase logic

Configuring automatic tools to filter out sensitive attributes without maintaining individual code-level trace adjustments.

#9 about 5 min

Configuring receivers, processors, and exporters inside the collector

Combining multiple routing stages inside collector pipelines to scrub sensitive tracing fields.

#10 about 2 min

Connecting individual contextual spans into end-to-end trace waterfalls

Generating a complete trace history mapping by matching unique transaction headers against processed time events.

#11 about 2 min

Passing contextual system variables using OpenTelemetry baggage traces

Adding generalized execution context tags to tracing headers for smart routing or container security validation.

#12 about 4 min

Understanding out-of-scope execution capabilities for the OpenTelemetry standard

Distinguishing pure data transmission specifications from external dashboarding limits, alerting services, and uptime monitoring.

#13 about 3 min

Supplementing internal application tracing with comprehensive synthetic monitoring

Verifying realistic public infrastructure availability using programmable workflows independent of specific code instrumentation limits.

#14 about 2 min

Customizing external collector behavior utilizing static YAML programming

Using formatting configuration parameters to normalize conflicting data strings imported across diverse underlying frameworks.

#15 about 4 min

Managing redundant log verbosity levels and backend routing rules

Isolating debug errors to dedicated low-cost archives while preserving structured execution links internally.

#16 about 3 min

Evaluating practical OpenTelemetry downsides alongside pending transformation features

Identifying potential execution weaknesses in automatic language integrations compared to stable vendor options.

#17 about 3 min

Integrating OpenTelemetry pipeline platforms with embedded third-party observability providers

Verifying exact external ingestion support guarantees to ensure clean telemetry parsing across strict dashboard environments.

#18 about 3 min

Exploring advanced remote testing capabilities using robust Checkly scripts

Improving reliable external incident monitoring response workflows by customizing active execution test deployments directly.

Matching moments

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Defining OpenTelemetry as a standardized observability framework

Iulia Feroli

Iulia Feroli · LIVE

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Implementing tracing and metrics code with OpenTelemetry APIs

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Core architectural components of the OpenTelemetry data pipeline

Ben Greenberg

Ben Greenberg · WWC 2022

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Gathering metrics natively with OpenTelemetry frameworks

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Distinguishing between telemetry, monitoring, and observability

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Juraci Paixão Kröhling · WWC Europe 2026

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Tracing agent telemetry with OpenTelemetry and Jaeger tools

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