Trace your applications with OpenTelemetry

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Introduces distributed tracing fundamentals and shows how to instrument a web application using OpenTelemetry and Elastic APM within an ELK stack. Covers low-cost, practical steps to collect traces and analyze application performance to find hard-to-reproduce bugs across microservices.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 1:27OpenTelemetry principles
3. 3:54Architecture and components
4. 5:00App instrumentation
5. 7:25Live demo
6. 12:58Trace analysis
7. 15:53Troubleshooting
8. 16:36Conclusion

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