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KubeCon & CloudNativeCon Project Lightning Talks 2024 – The OpenTelemetry Hero’s Journey: Working with Open Source Observability
Having correlated metrics, traces, and logs from our services and infrastructure is a vital component of observability.
We will discuss what’s possible with OpenTelemetry and where the gaps are with today’s open-source tools.
KubeCon Observability Day NA 2024 Talk: Where’s the Auto in Auto-Instrumentation? A Look at Current Automation Strategies with OTel
"Automatic Instrumentation” can mean a lot of things depending on context. Whether we discuss the Instrumentation SDKs or full-kernel observability with eBPF, the promise is the same: end-to-end observability coverage with no custom code and minimal setup. First, I will review how the different mechanisms available for automatic instrumentation work within each of the 11 languages supported by OpenTelemetry. I’ll examine:
How code-path instrumentation works at the library level by diving into the Node.js OpenTelemetry Extension and the JavaScript libraries it supports
Automatic instrumentation via attachment with Java and Python
Automatic instrumentation injection using the OTel Operator for DotNet, Java, and NodeJS
Finally, I’ll take a peek at the future of automatic instrumentation of compiled binaries with a look at the Go instrumentation library built using eBPF.