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Honeycomb.io’s Austin Parker: OpenTelemetry In-Depth
- OpenTelemetry is a framework and toolkit designed to create and manage telemetry data such as traces, metrics, and logs.
- OpenTelemetry is currently the second most active project of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, surpassed only by Kubernetes.
- Observability for Kubernetes is fully supported by OpenTelemetry (OTel).
- Most of the challenges in integrating OpenTelemetry with Kubernetes aren’t necessarily specific to Kubernetes, although they are exacerbated in some ways. The biggest challenge is, easily, data management.
- Your goal is to balance these, while making tradeoffs between telemetry resolution, telemetry availability, and query performance.
- Generally, OpenTelemetry integrates well with other observability tooling, especially if those tools support OpenTelemetry Protocol (OTLP).
- In OpenTelemetry, the former is any of our zero-code instrumentation agents, and the latter is the OpenTelemetry Collector.
- Effective alerting on Kubernetes services can dramatically reduce the amount of time needed in order to discover the contributing factors to an incident.
- OpenTelemetry has emerged as a clear and unambiguous standard for multi-modal observability data in cloud-native systems.
- In the future, I believe we’ll see OpenTelemetry further expand into new domains — user analytics, business events, developer productivity, carbon emissions and resource cost, to name a few.
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