The OpenTelemetry End-User SIG recently surveyed the community to find out how user-friendly OpenTelemetry’s documentation is. In an earlier survey, two-thirds of respondents named comprehensive documentation as a top resource they wished they’d had when getting started with OpenTelemetry. So we decided to dig a little deeper. The Docs Usability Survey asked users where they go for OTel documentation, what they’d like to see more of in the docs, and how they rate the current state of th...| OpenTelemetry
If you want to get logs from your Java application ingested into an OpenTelemetry-compatible logs backend, the easiest and recommended way is using an OpenTelemetry protocol (OTLP) exporter. However, some scenarios require logs to be output to files or stdout due to organizational or reliability needs. A common approach to centralize logs is to use unstructured logs, parse them with regular expressions, and add contextual attributes. However, regular expression parsing is problematic. They be...| OpenTelemetry