Observability is becoming a common practice for DevOps teams monitoring and troubleshooting IT systems. But Observability can offer much more than that. More advanced usage of telemetry, and in particular distributed tracing and its context propagation mechanism, can uncover insights into your business performance and can help solve business and FinOps problems.

On this episode of OpenObservability Talks I hosted Yuri Shkuro, creator of Jaeger project and a champion of Distributed Tracing, to discuss how tracing and observability can help beyond DevOps, whether on business cases, FinOps or even software development. We also caught up on the latest updates from Jaeger, the CNCF’s distributed tracing OSS project, its synergy with OpenTelemetry and more topics.

Yuri is a software engineer who works on distributed tracing, observability, reliability, and performance problems; author of the book "Mastering Distributed Tracing"; creator of Jaeger, an open source distributed tracing platform and a graduated CNCF project; co-founder of the OpenTracing and OpenTelemetry CNCF projects; member of the W3C Distributed Tracing Working Group.

The episode was live-streamed on 14 September 2021 and the video is available at https://youtube.com/live/YSOyTagKGtM

Show Notes:

• why distributed tracing?
• tracing through async flows
• why is the slow adoption of tracing?
• instrumentation challenge for tracing adoption
• using context propagation for business use cases
• observability tooling maturity
• Jaeger project updates
• OpenTelemetry accepted to CNCF incubation
• Cortex and Thanos accepted to CNCF incubation
• Google contributing SQLCommenter project to OTel
• K8s v1.22 releases API Server tracing in alpha

Resource:

• Great addition in Kubernetes v1.22 release: API Server Tracing, based on OpenTelemetry
• Tracing at Uber and the beginning of Jaeger project: Distributed Tracing at Uber-Scale episode
• OpenTelemetry becomes a CNCF incubating project
• Cortex accepted to CNCF incubation in August
• Thanos accepted to CNCF incubation in August
• Google Donates Sqlcommenter to OpenTelemetry Project
• From Distributed Tracing to APM: Taking OpenTelemetry and Jaeger Up a Level
• Mastering Distributed Tracing by Yuri Shkuro