OTel Me More: OpenTelemetry Project News - Vol 2

This week’s news includes a major announcement from Datadog as well as continued progress within the open source project.

OpenTelemetry Project News

• Datadog 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 channel or join an upcoming meeting
• API and SDK versioning schemas are under discussion (#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-js:
• Add opentelemetry/exporter-prometheus package #254
• examples: provide an example for gRPC plugin #250
• Add baseline benchmark suite #261

Awesome Articles, Resources, and Links

• A Shallow Dive into Distributed Tracing by Andrew Randall
• A Tale of Two Papers (video) - by Jessie Frazelle at Papers We Love SF
• The Path from Unstructured Logs to Observability by Rachel Perkins
• The Ranch Cast: Distributed Tracing with Austin Parker (video)
• Yuri Shkuro on Tracing Distributed Systems Using Jaeger (podcast)

Upcoming Conferences, Talks, and Live Events

• [Sept 12-14] Talks by Hungai Kevin Amuhinda and Daniela Miao at StrangeLoop
• [Sept 17] OpenTelemetry Tuesdays on Twitch starting at 11am PT, co-hosted by Liz Fong-Jones and me
• [Sept 18] Making Service Launches Boring with Distributed Tracing - talk at SF Reliability Engineering Meetup
• [Nov 18] If you’re headed to KubeCon + CloudNativeCon this November, be sure to check out the Observability 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 here.