Observability Without Borders: The OpenTelemetry Collector in a WebA...
summary
OpenTelemetry Collector compiles to WebAssembly so it can run in browsers and other Wasm runtimes; about 90% of components compile today and a demo shows a collector running in the slides that takes JS SDK click events, converts them to OTLP JSON, applies a rate and transform processor, and plots rates in the browser. Current build sizes are large—38–66 MB binaries—and Go’s Wasm/WASI support limits networking and concurrency, requiring WasmEdge or TinyGo workarounds and careful config trimming.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00OpenTelemetry Collector & WebAssembly intro
- 2:07Combining WebAssembly with Collector
- 3:11WebAssembly and WASI standards
- 5:40WebAssembly plugins for Collector
- 8:29Running Collector in WebAssembly
- 10:16Compiling Collector to WASM
- 12:18WASM Collector size & performance
- 14:25Use cases for WASM Collector
- 17:59Limitations and future
- 19:47Live demo in browser
- 21:36Q&A
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