Distributed Tracing with ClickHouse® & OpenTelemetry

Recorded: June 18 @ 08:00 am PDT
Presenters: Josh Lee & Maciej Bak

Have you ever wondered what happens inside a distributed database when you run a query? In this webinar, we’ll explore the inner workings of ClickHouse using OpenTelemetry-compatible distributed tracing.

First, we’ll analyze the internal workings of various ClickHouse clusters while we run a variety of queries.

Then we’ll show how to use OpenTelemetry- and eBPF-based tools to observe queries coming into ClickHouse with context from the client applications, creating comprehensive end-to-end traces.

Finally, we’ll show how ClickHouse itself can be used as a versatile storage layer for trace data, and we’ll connect our data in ClickHouse to trace to visualization tools like Jaeger and Grafana.

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