KubeCon + CloudNativeCon India 2024

OpenTelemetry has transformed the observability landscape by moving beyond the traditional three pillars of traces, metrics, and logs. With these core components now stable, the project is expanding its reach to encompass even more facets of system monitoring and performance analysis. In this session, we will explore the latest advancements in OpenTelemetry, including the integration of profiling, which offers deeper insights into application performance by capturing detailed execution data. Additionally, we'll discuss the emerging concept of entities, which promises to provide a more holistic view of system components and their interactions. By expanding its capabilities, OpenTelemetry is not just enhancing the granularity and scope of observability but also setting the stage for more comprehensive and actionable insights. Join us to learn how these new developments can help you achieve unparalleled visibility into your systems and drive better operational outcomes.

gRPC is often chosen for its high-performance communication, making it crucial to minimize latency. Distributed tracing helps identify and diagnose latency bottlenecks in gRPC calls, ensuring that the performance benefits of gRPC are fully realized. Setting up tracing from scratch for gRPC applications is complex and warrants significant maintenance overhead. Moreover, there is not much literature on how to do it properly, resulting in bespoke and suboptimal solutions. In this talk, Purnesh Dixit from the gRPC team will talk about the best practices for utilizing distributed tracing effectively in gRPC environments by configuring the new OpenTelemetry plug-in, created by the gRPC team in google.