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Coding Blocks

What is OpenTelemetry?

Aug 21, 2023
This podcast delves into OpenTelemetry, discussing observability, distributed tracing, and standardizing metric exposure. Hosts explore its role in software performance analysis, signal emissions, and system functionality. They also share a helpful tip on using the control key to manage apps in the task manager, and discuss unconventional musical collaborations for coding background music.
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Quick takeaways

  • Tracing in OpenTelemetry helps track user paths and identify system issues in complex architectures.
  • Metrics in OpenTelemetry focus on numeric data aggregation for monitoring application performance.

Deep dives

Overview of Logs and Traces

Logs are standalone messages of events, while traces are correlated to units of work or operations, allowing a sequence of events to be traced through a system, providing context and tying multiple requests or operations together.

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