Distributed Tracing with OpenTelemetry
summary
A demo shows how to instrument a simple Python HTTP client-server and database flow using OpenTelemetry Python, exporting traces to a local Jaeger backend. It contrasts manual spans and attributes (which capture application context and custom spans) with automatic instrumentation via opentelemetry-instrument (which produces only library-level spans and omits custom app spans), and gives example timings for a full request (~5 ms), server portion (~1.48 ms) and DB span (~0.75 ms).
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chapters (15)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:35Agenda
- 2:16Three Pillars of Observability
- 4:08Observability in the Microservices Era
- 6:22Distributed Tracing
- 7:39Traces - Span - Attributes
- 9:06Trace Example
- 10:18OpenTelemetry - Introduction
- 11:42OpenTelemetry - Project Status
- 12:30OpenTelemetry - API
- 13:22OpenTelemetry - API Example
- 13:56OpenTelemetry - Demo Architecture
- 20:50OpenTelemetry - Autoinstrumentation
- 21:53OpenTelemetry - Agents
- 25:26Thank you! Mauricio Vásquez Bernal
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