OpenTelemetry Project News
Congratulations to the Distributed Tracing Working GroupDistributed Tracing Working Group!
Morgan McLean wrote a Medium articlea Medium article outlining the beta release plan for OpenTelemetry
Two new Gitter chats opened up this past week: a sampling working groupsampling working group
Featured Issues:
OpenTelemetry-Java #837: Create a stress test moduleCreate a stress test module
OpenTelemetry-Java #853: Add b3 propagatorAdd b3 propagator
Awesome Articles, Resources, and Links
Lightstep’s OpenTelemetry Learning PortalOpenTelemetry Learning Portal offers resources from Getting Started guides to implementation best practices
Telemetry and the art of measuring what mattersTelemetry and the art of measuring what matters
Upcoming Conferences, Talks, and Live Events
Catch Greg MeffordGreg Mefford on Feb 27-28 in Austin, TX
Lightstep and Honeycomb team up for an OpenTelemetry workshop at QCon LondonQCon London on March 4th
Kubecon EUKubecon EU kicks off on March 30th. More details to come on a Day Zero OpenTelemetryworkshop!
Alex Boten will be speaking about auto-instrumentation and OpenTelemetryauto-instrumentation and OpenTelemetry
Join us in Boston, MA on April 6 for Observe 2020Observe 2020, and make sure to check back for details on an OpenTelemetry workshop during the event
Stay tuned to the OpenTelemetry Twitch channelOpenTelemetry Twitch channel for the weekly show ‘OpenTelemetry Tuesdays’ and event-specific livestreams
Want to Contribute?
How to Start Contributing to OpenTelemetryHow 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 PythonPython), find an issue and get started!
Interested in joining our team? See our open positions herehere.
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Observability-Landscape-as-Code in Practice
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OpenTelemetry for Python: The Hard Way
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