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Coding Blocks

Tracing Specifics – Know your System with OpenTelmetry

Sep 5, 2023
The podcast covers a range of topics including open telemetry implementation, setup and configuration, spans and attributes in tracing, movie quotes and memory recall, performance comparison and TL, DR summaries, and a discussion on a video game called Sea of Stars and fuzzing applications.
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Quick takeaways

  • TracerProvider is initialized once and typically has the same lifecycle as the application, and includes Resource and Exporter initialization.
  • Tracer creates spans with more information about what’s happening with the request.

Deep dives

Spans represent a unit of work in a trace

Spans are the building blocks of traces and represent a unit of work or operation. They have a name, a parent span ID (if nested), a span context, attributes, span events, span links, and span status.

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