In the latest session of OTel in Practice, engineers Huxing Zhang and Steve Rao shared Alibaba’s journey adopting OpenTelemetry within their services. The discussion focused on a wide range of topics, from Java agents to Go compile-time instrumentation, and of course Gen-AI observability! Focusing on Java, Alibaba initially used an in-house solution based on Pinpoint, but faced limitations with framework support and asynchronous context propagation. It was then that they decided to migrate ...
