Achieving Observability into Your Application with OpenCensus

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OpenCensus provides a consistent, language‑specific library (seven languages supported) that automatically propagates trace context, collects RPC latency and error metrics, and exports to backends like Prometheus + Stackdriver exporters or Zipkin and SignalFx. The demo runs a Java server + Go client, shows pprof and real‑time z‑pages, and reports mean RPC latency ~35 ms; traces and tagged metrics are successfully assembled end‑to‑end and sampled with configurable strategies.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 0:21Microservices
3. 1:39Distributed Tracing
4. 3:11Trace propagation
5. 4:49Application level Metrics
6. 5:20Observability
7. 5:47Difficulties
8. 6:20OpenCensus
9. 7:11Tagging

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