OTel Me More: OpenTelemetry Project News – Vol 33

OpenTelemetry Project News

The OpenTelemetry .NET implementation is officially in betaofficially in beta! 🎉 Want to test it out? The SIG included this 5 minute Getting Started guideGetting Started guide.

The new official recommendation from the OpenTelemetry .NET community is to use the .NET Activity API for tracing instrumentation. This change allows library authors to simply write to a platform standard API without the need to take any external dependencies, and targets all supported .NET versions – including .NET Framework 4.5.2 and above, as well as .NET Core 2.1 and above.

This week’s Featured Issues:

• OpenTelemetry-dotnet #441: Tests and benchmarks for OpenTelemetry.ApiTests and benchmarks for OpenTelemetry.Api

• OpenTelemetry-dotnet #928: Npgsql Postgresql client instrumentationNpgsql Postgresql client instrumentation

These OpenTelemetry SIGs are looking for extra support! Open source efforts rely on developers like you -- get involved with one of these implementations:

• OTel-RustOTel-Rust is looking for contributors and maintainers

• OTel-PHPOTel-PHP is looking for contributors and maintainers

• OTel-C++OTel-C++ is looking for contributors and maintainers

• OTel-RubyOTel-Ruby has seen a lot of contributions, but would benefit from having more dedicated maintainers

Awesome Articles, Resources, and Links

• The Ever Increasing Adoption of OpenTelemetryThe Ever Increasing Adoption of OpenTelemetry (blog) by Ori BroitOri Broit

• Getting Started with OpenTelemetry for Java and New RelicGetting Started with OpenTelemetry for Java and New Relic (blog) by Charles HumbleCharles Humble

• Getting Started with OpenTelemetry on KubernetesGetting Started with OpenTelemetry on Kubernetes (blog) by [Joy Bhattacherjee]

• TGI KubernetesTGI Kubernetes (stream) by VMWareVMWare

• Combine Java OpenTelemetry and New RelicCombine Java OpenTelemetry and New Relic (vlog) by New RelicNew Relic

• Austin Parker is hosting office hoursoffice hours, and so is Governance Committee member Liz Fong-JonesLiz Fong-Jones –– sign up for one of their sessions if you have OpenTelemetry or observability questions!

Upcoming Conferences, Talks, and Live Events

• KubeCon EU is officially going virtualofficially going virtual, with dates announced for August 17-20th of this year

• Stay tuned to the OpenTelemetry Twitch channelOpenTelemetry Twitch channel for the weekly show ‘OpenTelemetry Tuesdays’ at 11 am PT, as well as event-specific live streams

Want to Contribute?

• OTel Me More has a Gitter!OTel Me More has a Gitter! Drop in and say hi. It’s the best place to reach me if you there are any OpenTelemetry events, articles or other OTel resources that you think the community should know about

• 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, GoGo, JavaJava, or NodeNode (among others)(among others), find an issue and get started!

• Join the community on GitHubcommunity on GitHub and the conversation on Gitterconversation on Gitter

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