Open Telemetry

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Gordon Radlein (@maascamp, Engineering Director at @Datadoghq) talks about the evolution of Open Telemetry (OTel), Logging, Metrics and Observability.

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SHOW NOTES:

• OpenTelemetry (OSS project)
• OpenTracing + OpenCensus = Open Telemetry (OTel)
• What is Open Telemetry?
• Open Telemetry Slack Channel
• Components of Open Telemetry
• OpenTelemetry in Datadog
• Trace Collection through Open Telemetry

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show Gordon. Tell us a bit about your background, and what you’re focused on these days at Datadog?

Topic 2 - Let’s start with some basics - help us connect the dots between Telemetry and Logs and Metrics and Observability. And how does the Open Telemetry (OTel) project fit into the bigger picture?

Topic 3 - Telemetry has always been a tradeoff between how much data to collect and how much data can be processed. How do you see companies using Telemetry today? Does it usually depend on the company size, or the complexity of the application?

Topic 4 - How does Datadog offer Open Telemetry to customers today? Has that evolved over time, as the standard has evolved?

Topic 5 - What are some of the new trends happening around Open Telemetry

Topic 6 - You’ve been around quite a bit of very large-scale infrastructure in your career. What are some of the tips that you’d give anybody trying to build out or scale their observability environments?

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