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Distributed tracing in Knative
Tuesday, April 12, 2022 in 2022
In this article, you will learn how distributed tracing works in Knative and we will explore how the OpenTelemetry project can make tracing support in this environment easier. We will explore Knative under the hood to understand what distributed …
Apache APISIX Integrates with OpenTelemetry to Collect Tracing Data
Saturday, March 26, 2022 in 2022
This article introduces the Apache APISIX’s opentelemetry plugin concept and how to enable and deploy the plugin. Background Information OpenTelemetry is an open source telemetry data acquisition and processing system. It not only provides …
OpenTelemetry Tuesdays, Signing Off!
Monday, March 21, 2022 in 2022
When we started running OpenTelemetry Tuesday live streams back in 2019, the world was a lot different than it is today. Back then, it was very challenging for external participants and observers to understand what was going on with the overall …
Checklist for TroublesShooting OpenTelemetry Node.js Tracing Issues
Tuesday, February 22, 2022 in 2022
I’ll try to make this one short and to the point. You are probably here because you installed OpenTelemetry in your Node.js application and did not see any traces or some expected spans were missing. There can be many reasons for that, but some are …
Welcome to the OpenTelemetry blog
Wednesday, February 02, 2022 in 2022
Welcome to the OpenTelemetry blog! As of early 2022, we’ll be publishing blog entries through the website rather than Medium. You can still find Medium posts at medium.com/opentelemetry.
OpenTelemetry Erlang/Elixir, JavaScript, and Ruby v1.0 (Medium)
Tuesday, February 01, 2022 in 2022
We are kicking off the new year with a bang! In the last couple months, three new languages (Ruby, JavaScript, and Erlang/Elixir) have had their first 1.0 releases, joining the existing GA releases from C++, Go, Java, .NET, Python and Swift. Read all …
Using OpenTelemetry auto-instrumentation/agents in Kubernetes (Medium)
Monday, November 22, 2021 in 2021
This article introduces OpenTelemetry Operator’s new feature that significantly simplifies instrumenting workloads deployed on Kubernetes. Read all the details from the original post.
Welcome to the incoming 2021 OpenTelemetry Governance Committee (Medium)
Thursday, October 28, 2021 in 2021
The OpenTelemetry project just completed its 2021 election for the Governance Committee (GC). For all the details, see the original post.
OpenTelemetry C++ v1.0 — what’s there, and what next (Medium)
Friday, October 22, 2021 in 2021
OpenTelemetry C++ released its v1.0 stable version last month, which implements the OpenTelemetry distributed tracing specification! For all the details, see the original post.
Trace-Based Testing with OpenTelemetry: Meet Open Source Malabi (Medium)
Friday, October 01, 2021 in 2021
This article introduces you to Malabi, a new open source tool for trace-based testing. For all the details, see the original post.