Did OpenTelemetry deliver on its promise in 2023?

1. opentelemetry-python

   1 6 1,858 9.4 Python

   OpenTelemetry Python API and SDK

   

   As an example, Exemplars are part of the metrics spec [1]. The official python library says metrics status is 'stable' [2]. But there's an approximately 2-year old issue with no work on it, titled 'Metrics: Add support for exemplars', where the latest update is that no work has begun [3]. Nothing at a top-level of the opentelemetry-python project indicates that the project does not implement everything in the metrics spec, so if you wanted to use that capability, you are apt to discover it relatively late.

   [1] https://opentelemetry.io/docs/specs/otel/metrics/data-model/...

   [2] https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python

   [3] https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python/issue...

2. SaaSHub

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3. opentelemetry-proto

   2 11 627 8.1 Makefile

   OpenTelemetry protocol (OTLP) specification and Protobuf definitions

   

   Here's the example payloads for OTLP over JSON and example of how to ingest them: https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-proto/tree/m...

4. shovel

   3 1 7 5.2 Go

   Explore complex DNS records by making and aggregating DNS requests

   It doesn't read from files unfortunately, but https://openobserve.ai/ is very easy to set up locally (single binary) and send otel logs/metrics/traces to.

   Here's how I run it locally for my little shovel project - https://github.com/bbkane/shovel#run-the-webapp-locally-with... .

   Also linked from that README is an Ansible playbook to start OpenObserve as a systems service on a Linux VM.

   Alternatively, see the shovel codebase I linked above for a "stdout" TracerProvider. You could do something like that to save to a file, and then use a tool to prettify the JSON. I have a small script to format json logs at https://github.com/bbkane/dotfiles/blob/2df9af5a9bbb40f2e101...

5. openobserve

   4 49 14,019 9.9 Rust

   🚀 10x easier, 🚀 140x lower storage cost, 🚀 high performance, 🚀 petabyte scale - Elasticsearch/Splunk/Datadog alternative for 🚀 (logs, metrics, traces, RUM, Error tracking, Session replay).

   

   It doesn't read from files unfortunately, but https://openobserve.ai/ is very easy to set up locally (single binary) and send otel logs/metrics/traces to.

   Here's how I run it locally for my little shovel project - https://github.com/bbkane/shovel#run-the-webapp-locally-with... .

   Also linked from that README is an Ansible playbook to start OpenObserve as a systems service on a Linux VM.

   Alternatively, see the shovel codebase I linked above for a "stdout" TracerProvider. You could do something like that to save to a file, and then use a tool to prettify the JSON. I have a small script to format json logs at https://github.com/bbkane/dotfiles/blob/2df9af5a9bbb40f2e101...

6. dotfiles

   5 12 35 8.4 Python

   Configs for apps I care about (by bbkane)

   It doesn't read from files unfortunately, but https://openobserve.ai/ is very easy to set up locally (single binary) and send otel logs/metrics/traces to.

   Here's how I run it locally for my little shovel project - https://github.com/bbkane/shovel#run-the-webapp-locally-with... .

   Also linked from that README is an Ansible playbook to start OpenObserve as a systems service on a Linux VM.

   Alternatively, see the shovel codebase I linked above for a "stdout" TracerProvider. You could do something like that to save to a file, and then use a tool to prettify the JSON. I have a small script to format json logs at https://github.com/bbkane/dotfiles/blob/2df9af5a9bbb40f2e101...

7. opentelemetry-lambda

   6 8 295 9.3 Go

   Create your own Lambda Layer in each OTel language using this starter code. Add the Lambda Layer to your Lamdba Function to get tracing with OpenTelemetry.

   

   I mean, sure, you can improve performance a bit by increasing the RAM/compute capacity on the Lambda. But it always adds a pretty steep overhead right now, no matter how much capacity you throw at it.

   https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-lambda/issue...

   https://github.com/aws-observability/aws-otel-lambda/issues/...

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