Status: Mixed Users of OpenTelemetry need a way for instrumentation interactions with the OpenTelemetry API to actually produce telemetry. The OpenTelemetry SDK (henceforth referred to as the SDK) is an implementation of the OpenTelemetry API that provides users with this functionally. All language implementations of OpenTelemetry MUST provide an SDK. MeterProvider Status: Stable A MeterProvider MUST provide a way to allow a Resource to be specified. If a Resource is specified, it SHOULD be a...| OpenTelemetry
Previously, in Why Histograms? and Histograms vs Summaries, I went over the basics of histograms and summaries, explaining the tradeoffs, benefits, and limit...| dyladan.me
In many ways, histograms and summaries appear quite similar. They both roll up many data points into a data structure for efficient processing, transmission, and storage. They can also both be used to track arbitrary quantiles such as the median or p99 of your data. So how do they differ? Let’s dive in. Histograms Since I just published a post about histograms and when they are useful, I will only provide a quick summary here. A histogram is a data structure which describes the distribution...| OpenTelemetry
A histogram is a multi-value counter that summarizes the distribution of data points. For example, a histogram may have 3 counters which count the occurrences of negative, positive, and zero values respectively. Given a series of numbers, 3, -9, 7, 6, 0, and -1, the histogram would count 2 negative, 1 zero, and 3 positive values. A single histogram data point is most commonly represented as a bar chart. The above example has only 3 possible output values, but it is common to have many more in...| OpenTelemetry