How we made applications observable by default with OpenTelemetry

• trace-context-w3c

  12 4 0.0 C#

  W3C Trace Context purpose of and what kind of problem it came to solve.

  This is where things get complicated. Implementing such a system is a lot of work, and you should rely on upcoming standards like the W3C recommendation on trace contexts. You should rely on a standard because they solve two major pain points with observability: (1) they have popular implementations like OpenTelemetry (OTel) – which happens to be the second most active CNCF project to this day – and (2) they are widely adopted by major observability backends (e.g., Datadog).

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• jaeger

  101 20,265 9.8 Go

  CNCF Jaeger, a Distributed Tracing Platform

  

  Here is the detail of a trace generated for the code above, visualized using a local Jaeger instance: ‍

• opentelemetry-go

  143 5,198 9.8 Go

  OpenTelemetry Go API and SDK

  

  This is where things get complicated. Implementing such a system is a lot of work, and you should rely on upcoming standards like the W3C recommendation on trace contexts. You should rely on a standard because they solve two major pain points with observability: (1) they have popular implementations like OpenTelemetry (OTel) – which happens to be the second most active CNCF project to this day – and (2) they are widely adopted by major observability backends (e.g., Datadog).

• winston

  57 22,706 8.1 JavaScript

  A logger for just about everything.

  

  This will not scale with the volume of data, because the overhead associated with sending each piece of data is large in comparison to the volume of each individual piece. This is why most observability frameworks – including loggers like winston – buffer telemetry data before exporting it.

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