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The components of OpenTelemetry

Posted on May 25, 2022 | By Dave Anderson

Guest post originally published on the Scout APM blog by Dave Anderson, CTO, Scout APM Before we dive into the Collector, let’s cover the components that make up the OpenTelemetry project. Scout’s blog post “What is OpenTelemetry” gives…


OpenTelemetry and Python: A complete instrumentation guide

Posted on April 22, 2022

Guest post originally published on the Timescale blog by James Blackwood-Sewell, Timescale OpenTelemetry is considered by many the future of instrumentation, and it’s not hard to understand why. In a world where successful companies are software companies, the…


Learn OpenTelemetry tracing with this lightweight microservices demo

Posted on April 4, 2022 | By Ramon Guiu and John Pruitt

Guest post originally published in the Timescale Blog by Ramon Guiu and John Pruitt OpenTelemetry is an open source observability framework for cloud-native service and infrastructure instrumentation hosted by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). It has gained a lot…


Configuring OpenTelemetry in Ruby

Posted on March 29, 2022

Guest post by Scout APM OpenTelemetry is enabling a revolution in how Observability data is collected and transmitted. See our What Is OpenTelemetry post on why this is an important inflection point in the Observability space. In this…


Understand OpenTelemetry part 4: Instrument a Java app with OpenTelemetry

Posted on September 22, 2021 | By Jack Berg

Guest post originally published on New Relic’s blog by Jack Berg, engineer at New Relic This blog post is part of the Understand OpenTelemetry series. Part 1 gave an overview to OpenTelemetry and discussed why it is the future of instrumentation.Part 2 explored…


Understand OpenTelemetry part 3: data sources

Posted on September 6, 2021 | By Alan West and Lavanya Chockalingam

Guest post originally published on the New Relic blog by Alan West and Lavanya Chockalingam This blog post is part of the Understand OpenTelemetry series. Part 1 provided an overview to OpenTelemetry and why it is the future of instrumentation. Part 2 explored some of the…


DevOps.com: “CNCF Advances OpenTelemetry Initiative”

Posted on September 1, 2021

The Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) has voted to accept OpenTelemetry as an incubating project as part of an ongoing effort to simplify instrumentation of software using open source agent software.


OpenTelemetry becomes a CNCF incubating project

Posted on August 26, 2021

The CNCF Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) has voted to accept OpenTelemetry as a CNCF incubating project. OpenTelemetry is an observability framework for cloud native software. It is a collection of tools, APIs, and SDKs that can be used…


Understand OpenTelemetry part 2: core components

Posted on August 26, 2021 | By Alan West and Lavanya Chockalingam

Guest post originally published on New Relic’s blog by Alan West and Lavanya Chockalingam This blog post is part of the Understand OpenTelemetry series. Part 1 gave an overview to OpenTelemetry and discussed why it is the future of instrumentation. Now in Part 2,…


Mentorship Spotlight: Second time lucky with OpenTelemetry

Posted on August 13, 2021 | By Ndubuisi Onyemenam

Guest post originally published on Medium by Ndubuisi Onyemenam Luck Is What Happens When Preparation Meets Opportunity Seneca The first time I applied to OpenTelemetry for the Linux Foundation Internship was for the Q3-Q4 round of 2020. I received a rejection email,…