Getting Started with OpenTelemetry in Python
summary
Shows a runnable Python example: two microservices (user and to‑do) wired with the OpenTelemetry Python SDK and an OpenTelemetry Collector, sent to a local Jaeger backend via Docker Compose. Demonstrates automatic spans for HTTP calls and DB queries, trace IDs propagated in headers, and a visual trace that links the to‑do request to the user service. Setup is a few pip installs and a run command, the demo works, and an OpenTelemetry bootcamp of six videos documents production steps.
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chapters (6)
- 0:00Introduction to tracing
- 0:54Why distributed tracing
- 4:06OpenTelemetry overview
- 5:08How tracing works
- 8:10Python implementation demo
- 11:36Resources and community
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