Getting Started with OpenTelemetry
summary
OpenTelemetry defines a language-neutral API/SDK plus a collector and protocol that unifies traces metrics and logs into indexed, contextual telemetry; the collector speaks OTLP and translates to Zipkin Jaeger Prometheus, and OpenTelemetry provides Java/JS/Python/Go quickstarts and a Java agent demoed with the PetClinic app sending data to Lightstep. It uses W3C traceparent/trace state and baggage for context propagation, ships no backend, and emphasizes a spec-driven, backward‑compatible instrumentation model.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Intro
- 1:16Software Components
- 3:16Installation
- 3:49Java Demo
- 6:32OpenTelemetry Basics
- 10:57Context Propagation
- 12:21Context Propagation Headers
- 15:10Recap
- 16:57Ted Young
- 18:24Java Library
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