Conference:  CloudOpen 2022

Authors: Weain Deng, Kranti Vikram Anugola

2022-06-21

Telemetry of distributed applications deployed on a cloud has been a topic of importance across the software industry. Off late Opentelemetry has standardized way to collect metrics from distributed systems. Enriching these with standard traces, logs and events using opentelmetry libs & collectors along with open source tracing backend has helped us build telemetry backend that can handle peta scale telemetry data. In this talk we will share our experience in building and handling petascale telemetry data at scale using open source projects. We will also attempt to touch upon 1. Opensource Projects we used to build this system 2. Scale that we are able to handle 3. Cloud Storage Services that we used to build this system 4. Walmart’s OpenTelemetry adoption strategy.

Conference:  KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2022

Authors: Dotan Horovits

2022-05-19

OpenTelemetry is a new open-source project that aims to provide a single set of APIs, libraries, agents, and collector services to capture distributed traces, metrics, and logs.

• OpenTelemetry supports metric pipelines and has Prometheus support.
• The auto collector has receivers and exporters in Prometheus formats.
• OpenTelemetry is working on adding logging support.
• The API is still in draft, but the focus is on getting a specification for a strongly typed and machine-readable format for logs.
• OpenTelemetry has a new working group for client instrumentation.
• The OpenTelemetry collector supports the Prometheus format, and you can use Prometheus as a back-end.
• The future of OpenTelemetry includes making the operational side easier and adding more signals beyond logs, metrics, and tracing.