OpenTelemetry for Databases: Empowering DevOps through sqlcommenter with Nimesh Bhagat

Optimizing or debugging database calls has to become as easy as optimizing your application code based on logs, metrics or traces your observability platform provides to developers. It has to be doable by the development and DevOps teams who are becoming more end-2-end responsible which includes new database services that are running in some managed cloud service.

In this episode we hear from Nimesh Bhagat, Product Manager at Google, how modern database observability supports development and DevOps teams to better understand, optimize and operate their end-2-end service flow. A great project Nimesh has been working on is sqlcommenter which uses OpenTelemetry to continue distributed traces started in the application into the internals of the database engine.

If you want to learn more check out the sqlcommenter documentation or the Google Podcast on Cloud SQL Insights.

Show Links
Nimesh on Linkedin
https://www.linkedin.com/in/nimesh-bhagat-b062354/

SQLCommenter
https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/databases/sqlcommenter-merges-with-opentelemetry

SQLCommenter Documentation
https://google.github.io/sqlcommenter/

Google Podcast on Cloud SQL Insights
https://www.gcppodcast.com/post/episode-247-cloud-sql-insights-with-nimesh-bhagat/