With contributions from Adriana Villela (Lightstep from ServiceNow). For the OpenTelemetry (OTel) End User Working Group’s fourth End User Q&A session of 2023, we spoke with Jacob Aronoff, Staff Software Engineer at Lightstep from ServiceNow and an OpenTelemetry Operator Maintainer. Read on if you are interested in learning how a vendor is using OTel in-house! This series of interviews is a monthly casual discussion with a team that’s using OpenTelemetry in production. The goal is to shar...| OpenTelemetry
With contributions from Rynn Mancuso (Honeycomb) and Reese Lee (New Relic). On Thursday, May 25th, 2023, the OpenTelemetry (OTel) End User Working Group hosted its third End User Q&A session of 2023. We had a bit of a gap due to KubeCon Europe, but now we’re back! This series is a monthly casual discussion with a team using OpenTelemetry in production. The goal is to learn more about their environment, their successes, and the challenges that they face, and to share it with the community, s...| OpenTelemetry
With contributions from Sebastian Choren, Adnan Rahić and Ken Hamric. Kubernetes is an open source system widely used in the cloud native landscape to provide ways to deploy and scale containerized applications in the cloud. Its ability to observe logs and metrics is well-known and documented, but its observability regarding application traces is new. Here is a brief synopsis of the recent activity in the Kubernetes ecosystem: The first discussions started in December 2018 with a first PR on...| OpenTelemetry