As more and more users are looking to use OpenTelemetry instrumentation in their production deployments, one important consideration is the impact that OpenTelemetry will have on their application performance. In this blog post I will discuss a few recent improvements in tooling around performance benchmarking. Measuring performance overhead Instrumentation is not free. It intercepts an application’s operations and collects (often) a large amount of data, which takes additional CPU and memo...
