How to Get Started with OpenTelemetry

It's been said that open source software is eating the world. In the observability space, the project making this possible is OpenTelemetry. It's quickly becoming the standard for instrumentation and data collection of observability data. Understanding what data to collect and how to collect it properly is fundamental to ensuring users can quickly address availability and performance issues. Steve Flanders, Director of Engineering at Splunk, discusses the components of the project, its current status, and how you can get started integrating it into your modern app infrastructure. 💚 For questions about NGINX Open Source, join the NGINX Community Forum: https://community.nginx.org/ 🔴 For NGINX Plus users, please contact our F5 support team: https://my.f5.com/manage/s/article/K000140156 Chapters: 00:00 Introduction 00:59 What is OpenTelemetry? 02:49 OpenTelemetry is the second most active project in CNCF today 03:12 Everyone is contributing and adopting OpenTelemetry 04:04 OpenTelemety Components 05:58 Specification and Data Portability 10:03 Instrumentation Libraries 12:42 Collector (Binary, Agent, Service) 14:57 OpenTelemetry Reference Architecture 15:52 OpenTelemetry Project Status 16:44 OpenTelemetry Resources 16:59 A demo of how OpenTelemetry works 24:17 Wrap Up