OTel Me More: OpenTelemetry Project News – Vol 12

OpenTelemetry Project News

• CNCF has finalized talk schedules for KubeCon EU and OpenTelemetry has a great presence. Sergey Kanzhelev wrote an excellent breakdown of the talks
• OpenTelemetry Enhancement Proposal (OTEP) 66 has merged, laying out the details for a new Context Propagation API, with the aim of making this specification a v0.3 feature
• Removal of the Metric Gauge instrument in favor of other instruments is gaining momentum

• Featured Issues

  • OpenTelemetry-JS: Add ForceFlush to span processor #729
  • OpenTelemetry-JS: Add cross-browser CI tests of browser plugins #650

Awesome Articles, Resources, and Links

• Check out Morgan McLean’s Monthly OpenTelemetry Update for January 2020
• Custom Metrics in Node.js with OpenTelemetry (blog) by Yuri Grinshteyn
• Monitoring Go Applications with OpenTelemetry (presentation) by Johannes Liebermann

Upcoming Conferences, Talks, and Live Events

• Catch Greg Mefford on Feb 27-28 in Austin, TX
• Lightstep and Honeycomb team up for an OpenTelemetry workshop at QCon London on March 4th
• Kubecon EU kicks off on March 30th. OpenTelemetry workshop on Day Zero!
• Join us in Boston, MA on April 6 for Observe 2020, and make sure to check back for details on an OpenTelemetry workshop during the event
• Stay tuned to the OpenTelemetry Twitch channel for the weekly show ‘OpenTelemetry Tuesdays’ and event-specific livestreams

Want to Contribute?

• How to Start Contributing to OpenTelemetry (blog) by Austin Parker
• OpenTelemetry is an open source project with implementations in many different languages, so whether you prefer to work with Python), find an issue and get started!
• Join the community on GitHub