What is OpenTelemetry?

⏳ Timestamps:
00:00 - Intro
00:18 - What it OpenTelemetry
01:03 - Traces Spans Metrics logs and baggage
02:15 - Why OpenTelemetry?
03:34 - CNCF
04:04 - OTEL Terms
07:28 - collector explanation
08:41 - collector setup
12:17 - Outro

In the video, Chris Griffing talks about OpenTelemetry, which is a standard for recording logs, traces, and metrics in your apps. It helps developers understand how their applications are working in real-time. OpenTelemetry provides tools for tracing, metrics, logs, and other important data that show what's happening in complex systems.

Chris shows how to set up an OpenTelemetry collector, explaining the different parts like receivers, processors, exporters, and pipelines. This setup helps developers make their apps run better and be more reliable.

[AakashAgarwal-qm]

i saw a lot of otel intro videos, this is the the best of them

[StingSting]

This is good stuff man. Some diagrams would have been amazing.
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[sfincione]

Yeah, this is quite a good, clear and simple overview of Otel. I do courses in this topic too. I like how you did this.

[juanitoMint]

Evaluating vendors right now none of them supports vanilla otel and they heavily relay on kube state metrics