Uploaded November 2022 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
It's been said that open source software is eating the world. In the observability space, the project making this possible is OpenTelemetry. It's quickly becoming the standard for instrumentation and data collection of observability data. Understanding what data to collect and how to collect it properly is fundamental to ensuring users can quickly address availability and performance issues. Steve Flanders, Director of Engineering at Splunk, discusses the components of the project, its current status, and how you can get started integrating it into your modern app infrastructure.
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Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
00:59 What is OpenTelemetry?
02:49 OpenTelemetry is the second most active project in CNCF today
03:12 Everyone is contributing and adopting OpenTelemetry
04:04 OpenTelemety Components
05:58 Specification and Data Portability
10:03 Instrumentation Libraries
12:42 Collector (Binary, Agent, Service)
14:57 OpenTelemetry Reference Architecture
15:52 OpenTelemetry Project Status
16:44 OpenTelemetry Resources
16:59 A demo of how OpenTelemetry works
24:17 Wrap Up
It's been said that open source software is eating the world. In the observability space, the project making this possible is OpenTelemetry. It's quickly becoming the standard for instrumentation and data collection of observability data. Understanding what data to collect and how to collect it properly is fundamental to ensuring users can quickly address availability and performance issues. Steve Flanders, Director of Engineering at Splunk, discusses the components of the project, its current status, and how you can get started integrating it into your modern app infrastructure.
💚 For questions about NGINX Open Source, join the NGINX Community Forum: community.nginx.org
🔴 For NGINX Plus users, please contact our F5 support team: my.f5.com/manage/s/article/K000140156
Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
00:59 What is OpenTelemetry?
02:49 OpenTelemetry is the second most active project in CNCF today
03:12 Everyone is contributing and adopting OpenTelemetry
04:04 OpenTelemety Components
05:58 Specification and Data Portability
10:03 Instrumentation Libraries
12:42 Collector (Binary, Agent, Service)
14:57 OpenTelemetry Reference Architecture
15:52 OpenTelemetry Project Status
16:44 OpenTelemetry Resources
16:59 A demo of how OpenTelemetry works
24:17 Wrap Up
