OpenTelemetry: Using Unified Semantics to Drive Insights + Project... - Morgan, Alolita, Daniel, Ted
Channel: CNCF [Cloud Native Computing Foundation]
Date: 01/05/2023

OpenTelemetry: Using Unified Semantics to Drive Insights + Project Update - Morgan McLean, Splunk; Alolita Sharma, Apple; Daniel Dyla, Dynatrace; Ted Young, Lightstep

This is the official OpenTelemetry session at Kubecon. OpenTelemetry is excellent at capturing traces, metrics, logs, and other signals at scale, however its capabilities go far beyond this. One often-overlooked piece of functionality is OpenTelemetry's semantic conventions, which consistently apply metadata to all signal types so that they can be correlated, aggregated, and more intelligently processed during Collector pre-processing and within observability analytics systems that receive OpenTelemetry data. In this session, we will discuss: - OpenTelemetry's core semantic conventions, what data is guaranteed, and how this data applies to different signal types (including logs) - How OpenTelemetry's semantics can be extended within an organization - Examples of the semantic conventions in action We will then present an update on OpenTelemetry's roadmap, what's new in the project, and host a maintainer Q&A.