This week’s news includes a major announcement from Datadogmajor announcement from Datadog as well as continued progress within the open source project.
OpenTelemetry Project News
Datadog announcedDatadog announced the contribution of their tracing libraries to the OpenTelemetry project, with plans to support auto-instrumentation for OpenTelemetry users
The project welcomed a new Special Interest Group (SIG) for the Erlang/Elixir SDK last week. Say hello or get involved by joining their gitter channelgitter channel or join an upcoming meetingjoin an upcoming meeting
API and SDK versioning schemas are under discussion (#246#246), with the goal of supporting decoupled version numbers for the API and various SDKs
Want to contribute? Get started with one of these issues from opentelemetry-jsopentelemetry-js:
Add opentelemetry/exporter-prometheus package #254#254
examples: provide an example for gRPC plugin #250#250
Add baseline benchmark suite #261#261
Awesome Articles, Resources, and Links
A Shallow Dive into Distributed TracingA Shallow Dive into Distributed Tracing by Andrew Randall
A Tale of Two PapersA Tale of Two Papers (video) - by Jessie Frazelle at Papers We Love SFPapers We Love SF
The Path from Unstructured Logs to ObservabilityThe Path from Unstructured Logs to Observability by Rachel Perkins
Upcoming Conferences, Talks, and Live Events
[Sept 12-14] Talks by Hungai Kevin AmuhindaHungai Kevin Amuhinda and Daniela MiaoDaniela Miao at StrangeLoop
[Sept 17] OpenTelemetry TuesdaysOpenTelemetry Tuesdays on Twitch starting at 11am PT, co-hosted by Liz Fong-JonesLiz Fong-Jones and me
[Sept 18] Making Service Launches Boring with Distributed TracingMaking Service Launches Boring with Distributed Tracing - talk at SF Reliability Engineering Meetup
[Nov 18] If you’re headed to KubeCon + CloudNativeConKubeCon + CloudNativeCon this November, be sure to check out the Observability Practitioners SummitObservability Practitioners Summit on Day Zero - passes can be added when you register for KubeCon or by logging into your existing registration profile
Interested in joining our team? See our open positions herehere.
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