OpenTelemetry in Action: Identifying Database Dependencies

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  • opentelemetry-specification

    Specifications for OpenTelemetry

  • We discussed earlier that OpenTelemetry prescribes the attributes that the various components of an application should capture. The specification for attributes that should be part of the span covering a database client call is documented on GitHub. Many popular languages provide out-of-the-box instrumentation libraries that collect telemetry for database operations.

  • opentelemetry-dotnet

    The OpenTelemetry .NET Client

  • We instrument the application with the OpenTelemetry SDK and SqlClient instrumentation library for .NET. First, we add the following NuGet package references to the API’s project file:

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    OpenTelemetry Go API and SDK

  • OpenTelemetry is a system that generates logs, metrics, and traces in an integrated fashion. OpenTelemetry defines a standard to capture observability data. The OpenTelemetry data model has several key components.

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