OTel Me More: OpenTelemetry Project News - Vol 2

by Isobel Redelmeier

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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.