OpenTelemetry & Python: Manual Instrumentation for Beginners

In this video I walk through how to manually instrument your very first Python application with OpenTelemetry. This video is part of series which will progressively expand the OpenTelemetry monitoring in Python.

If you are new to OpenTelemetry, this is the perfect introduction to instrumentation in approximately 5 minutes.

00:00 Introduction
00:16 Define A Basic Python Function
00:51 Run the Basic Python Function
01:03 Add OpenTelemetry Dependencies
01:25 Look up latest versions on PyPi
01:53 Use pip to install dependencies
02:08 OpenTelemetry Step 1: Adding a tracer
02:21 Explanation of the tracer code
03:01 OpenTelemetry Step 2: Generating a span
03:10 Python with block or a Python decorator
03:16 Adding the decorator to the function
03:33 Run the code and get an OpenTelemetry span
03:46 Explanation of an OpenTelemetry span
04:38 Outro

[atamanch]

Really useful, thank you for putting this together. Music can be lowered by at least 50% and this would be 10/10

[arnabdhar-yj]

Thank You for explaining Open Telemetry in such a simple way. Just one suggestion, please lower down the background music, it can cause distraction to some viewers

[srsvg]

agree - music is distracting - video content is good

[srsvg]

i searched for "opentelemetry python" and only your channel results were relevant - so you can keep on extending this series - also create playlist

[duncdudeable]

I like the music, sets a cadence to the video, just needs to be lowered a bit :)

[dotnetfanboy]

Please cut out the background music. Very useful video otherwise.