OTel Me More: OpenTelemetry Project News - Vol 14

OpenTelemetry Project News

• Congratulations to the Distributed Tracing Working Group!
• Morgan McLean wrote a Medium article outlining the beta release plan for OpenTelemetry
• Two new Gitter chats opened up this past week: a sampling working group
• Featured Issues:
  • OpenTelemetry-Java #837: Create a stress test module
  • OpenTelemetry-Java #853: Add b3 propagator

Awesome Articles, Resources, and Links

• Lightstep’s OpenTelemetry Learning Portal offers resources from Getting Started guides to implementation best practices
• Telemetry and the art of measuring what matters
• Integrating tracing and logging with OpenTelemetry and Stackdriver

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. More details to come on a Day Zero OpenTelemetryworkshop!
• Alex Boten will be speaking about auto-instrumentation and OpenTelemetry
• 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

Interested in joining our team? See our open positions here.