Amsterdam JUG OTel Workshop at Dash0

Join in with the latest Amsterdam JUG Workshop at Dash0 (which is at Dash0, Nieuwezijds Voorburgwal 162/Suite 401, 1012SJ Amsterdam), in which we learn all the basic principles of OpenTelemetry, while eating pizza, (and celebrating Yoeri Krom's birthday).

Note:

• Bring Your own laptop because this is a hands-on workshop where you'll be learning about OpenTelemetry from scratch!
• Limited seats, exclusive workshop, sign up quick!

Agenda

17:30 — Doors Open (and Food and Drinks)
18:00–18:20 — OpenTelemetry for Complete Beginners (Part 1).
18:20–18:50 — OpenTelemetry for Complete Beginners (Part 2).
18:50–19:20 — Hands on Lab 1: Instrumenting a demo app.
19:20–19:35 — Break.
19:35–20:10 — Hands on Lab 2: From data to answers.
20:10–20:40 — Hands on Lab 3: Break things on purpose.
20:40–21:00 — Wrap-up.

Details on Labs

Lab 1: Instrument a demo app. Add OpenTelemetry to a small service from scratch: SDK, auto-instrumentation, and a collector. You'll send the resulting traces, metrics, and logs into a demo environment so you can see what your instrumentation actually produces.

Lab 2: From data to answers. With telemetry flowing, we'll work through real questions: which service is slow, why, and what changed. The environment that we set up in Lab 1 is our workbench, but the techniques (correlating traces with logs, reading resource attributes, querying by semantic conventions) apply to any OTel-compatible backend.

Lab 3: Break things on purpose. Introduce latency, errors, and a misbehaving dependency into the demo app, while tracing the failure back to its cause using only what OTel gives you. The goal is to see how much of a real incident you can reconstruct from the signals, using the demo environment to check whether your diagnosis continues to makes sense.