Is it worth instrumenting with open-telemetry?

• opentelemetry-go-contrib

  11 993 9.4 Go

  Collection of extensions for OpenTelemetry-Go.

  

Tracing, including context propagation, is easy to set up with REST or gRPC. You can instrument most important parts of your application with the contrib package. Some libraries like go-redis have their own otel features, which could be a promising trend in the future. There are some important gaps though; for example, you'll have to go third party for database/sql.

• microservices-demo

  31 15,744 9.7 Go

  Sample cloud-first application with 10 microservices showcasing Kubernetes, Istio, and gRPC.

  

I also just discovered Google Cloud's microservices-demo repository, which has some samples of how to set up otel observability and GCP-specific Go profiling on GCP. I wish I'd found it before setting up otel myself.

• WorkOS

  workos.com sponsored

  The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

  

• signoz

  310 16,886 9.9 TypeScript

  SigNoz is an open-source observability platform native to OpenTelemetry with logs, traces and metrics in a single application. An open-source alternative to DataDog, NewRelic, etc. 🔥 🖥. 👉 Open source Application Performance Monitoring (APM) & Observability tool

  

I worked on Otel for my masters thesis. It’s not really ready for prod use due to breaking changes. There is also Signoz that is built on top of Otel. https://signoz.io

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