Troubleshooting and monitoring applications were always a pain point for development teams. These can be even more challenging in distributed systems and microservices architecture.

OpenTelemetry provides a set of utilities and SDKs to help deal with those challenges without locking your entire business to a specific vendor.

This session will overview monitoring and observability core concepts and terminology. We will go through what OpenTelemetry is, and the different tools and SDKs it offers.

We will demonstrate the power of OpenTelemetry using the OpenTelemetry Community Demo, and show how it can be used with other open-source projects such as Jaeger, Graphana, and Prometheus to troubleshoot an application.

After this session, you will have the information needed to leverage OpenTelemetry to gain better visibility of your production environment.