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The OpenTelemetry spec is a mess. There's so much … abstract blah blah blah? … and very little actual details.
If I actually go to the part of the spec that I think gets down to "here is how to concretely write OpenTelemetry stuff [1], that seems to have the various attributes camelCased, for example, whereas the article has named them "spanID" and "traceID".
AFAICT the "spec" also just links you to the implementation. "Just" read this protobuf definition, translate that to JSON in your mind's eye. I "POST" this to a hard-coded path tacked onto a URL… but do I post individual traces/logs? Can I batch them? I'm sure there's a gRPC thing I could start guessing from…
But it seems like the JSON stuff is a second class citizen from the gRPC interface. Unless that's just as bad, too…
Actually getting set up in Python isn't too terrible, though there are a few classes that you're like "what's the point of this?" and most of them are apparently just undoc'd. (E.g., [2], ^F TraceProvider, get nothing.)
It is a bit depressing how this seems to be becoming The Chosen Spec.
I also sort of have 64-bit integers for span IDs (TFA never mentions it, but AFAICT this is required by spec). I'd much rather have "/span/ids/are/a/tree" span IDs, as this integrates much better with any logging system: I can easily ask my log viewer to filter to a specific span (span_id == "/spans/a/b/c") or to a subtree (span_id regex-matches /^\/spans\/a\/.*/)
[1]: https://opentelemetry.io/docs/specs/otlp/#otlphttp
[2]: https://opentelemetry-python.readthedocs.io/en/latest/api/tr...
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self-hosted
Sentry, feature-complete and packaged up for low-volume deployments and proofs-of-concept
> I maintain that any platform that isn’t using some sort of tracing system is practically negligent in their engineering duty.
For some, it's difficult because many of the self-hostable out there are rather complex and have high requirements, like https://github.com/getsentry/self-hosted/blob/master/docker-...
Personally I found Apache Skywalking to be something that you can setup without too many issues https://skywalking.apache.org/ but it's not exactly ideal either.
I wonder what other good options are out there, something that you can have up and running on a 5$ VPS within an hour or two, to not cause friction.
Of course, when SaaS is an option, many will just go for that.
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> I maintain that any platform that isn’t using some sort of tracing system is practically negligent in their engineering duty.
For some, it's difficult because many of the self-hostable out there are rather complex and have high requirements, like https://github.com/getsentry/self-hosted/blob/master/docker-...
Personally I found Apache Skywalking to be something that you can setup without too many issues https://skywalking.apache.org/ but it's not exactly ideal either.
I wonder what other good options are out there, something that you can have up and running on a 5$ VPS within an hour or two, to not cause friction.
Of course, when SaaS is an option, many will just go for that.
