From Configurations to Conclusions: Lessons from Fine-Tuning Open Telemetry’s... - Vijay & Aishwarya
Channel: CNCF [Cloud Native Computing Foundation]
Date: 2024-03-27

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The adoption of Open Telemetry’s distributed tracing capabilities has revolutionized the way we analyze and monitor complex systems. Tracing allows us to speed up time to triage in massively distributed systems. Open Telemetry provides SDKs and a collector to do vendor neutral ingest into an Observability platform of choice. As many have described over time, the collector specifically, provides building blocks like Legos. Similar to Legos, one could easily put together either a masterpiece or something really ugly. In our journey to adopt Open Telemetry we went through a plethora of configuration patterns ranging from a single tier of collectors to multiple tiers of collectors with their own performance characteristics. In this talk, we will go over the various capabilities that can be used while adopting Open Telemetry Collector for Distributed Tracing, our journey of evolving pipeline configurations and valuable lessons we have learned along the way.