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January 28, 2022

OpenTelemetry Moves Past the Three Pillars

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Last summer, the OpenTelemetry project reached the incubation stage within the Cloud Native Computing Foundation. At the same time, OpenTelemetry passed another mile marker: over 1,000 contributing developers representing over 200 different organizations. This includes significant investments from three major cloud providers (Google, Microsoft, and AWS), numerous observability providers (Lightstep, Splunk, Honeycomb, Dynatrace, New Relic, Red Hat, Data Dog, etc.), and large end-user companies (Shopify, Postmates, Zillow, Uber, Mailchimp, etc.). It is the second-largest project within the CNCF, after Kubernetes.

November 16, 2020

OpenTelemetry Python: All You Need to Know About Tracing

Hi all, tedsuo back again. Last week we covered Node; this week we are going to dive into Python.

If you crack open OpenTelemetry, you’ll quickly discover that there’s a lot there. But, as a developer applying OpenTelemetry to your application, 99% of what’s in there doesn’t matter.

May 20, 2019

Introducing Java SpecialAgent: Start Tracing Without Writing Any Code

Java SpecialAgent is an extensible OSS Java agent for OpenTracing that enables end-to-end tracing without having to write any code.

With only a single command-line entry for installation, SpecialAgent seamlessly connects to OpenTracing-compliant tracers — such as the Jaeger and LightStep tracers — allowing you to immediately start observing and propagating distributed traces.