2022-03-24 - Living the XKCD 927 Dream with OpenTelemetry 1.0
Have you ever experienced vendor lock-in from your observability tooling? Don't you wish you could instrument your code once and send telemetry data to multiple vendors to see what their platforms have to offer before signing a contract and investing a lot of engineering time?
The future is now, with OpenTelemetry!
OpenTelemetry has finally reached general availability, with the Erlang and Elixir library leading the way as one of the first official implementations to be compliant with this new industry specification. Now is the time to start thinking about how to get your services instrumented using this exciting new vendor-neutral instrumentation.
This talk will quickly cover the basics you need to know to get started and send data to both open-source tooling and vendor platforms, so that you can get the observability you need, without being locked into a specific vendor's instrumentation library!