With the acceleration of scale and complexity in distributed architectures, the pressure to understand and identify abnormal behavior in our system is rapidly growing. We want observability in our system.

Here is where OpenTelemetry comes into play. This vendor-agnostic open-source project allows us to collect and export traces, logs, and metrics (also known as the three pillars of observability).

In this talk, you will learn what OpenTelemetry is, its current and future state, what data to collect and how to do it properly, how to use it with Jaeger and Prometheus, and how we should use it to understand our software’s performance and behavior.

This session will serve you as the roadmap for starting with OpenTelemetry and as your guide to understanding key concepts.