A lot of OpenTelemetry collector distributions exist. Many from the OpenTelemetry project, every vendor seemingly has their own and you can build YOUR own? So which should you choose?
In this video I deep dive into the OpenTelemetry collector components and explain everything you need to know to get started with the OpenTelemetry collector.
Another video where I show how to get started ridiculously easy with OpenTelemetry logging, using a tool we ALL have access to: cURL.
In this video I demonstrate how to autoinstrument a Python-based FastAPI application with OpenTelemetry in 2 lines of code, using auto instrumentation.
In this video I get hands-on with the OpenTelemetry filelog receiver and send the data into OpenObserve.
Here's how to use Python in Redis in under 4 minutes. This video will get you started with the very basics of working with Redis in Python. You'll also see cache busting techniques (aka automated removal of values from Redis after a set amount of time).
What's the difference between an OpenTelemetry span and an OpenTelemetry trace?
In the third episode of the series, the spans are sent from Python to Jaeger via an OpenTelemetry collector.
In the second of the series, the spans are enriched with useful metadata: Setting the span status, adding span attributes and span events.
In this post, you will take your first steps to manually instrumenting a Python application using OpenTelemetry.