Monitoring with Open Telemetry

In today’s fast-paced tech landscape, startups face the unique challenge of balancing rapid innovation with maintaining system reliability and performance. This session dives into how OpenTelemetry, a groundbreaking, open-source observability framework, empowers startups to achieve enterprise-level monitoring without the enterprise-level costs. Join us to explore the world of OTel and discover how it can streamline your monitoring processes, enhance system observability, and drive your startup’s success.

What You Will Learn:

1. Introduction to OpenTelemetry: Discover the origins, mission, and wide-reaching benefits of OTel. Understand how its vendor-neutral approach to collecting telemetry data (metrics, traces, logs) is revolutionizing monitoring practices.
2. Low-Cost Monitoring with OTel: Learn how OTel’s integration and instrumentation capabilities allow for a cost-effective monitoring setup. Explore how OTel’s built-in exporters and support for popular observability tools enable startups to tailor their monitoring stack to their specific needs while minimizing costs.
3. Core Concepts of Monitoring: Gain insights into the foundational elements of monitoring, including metrics, traces, and logs, and why they are critical for maintaining the health and performance of your systems. Discover the role of observability and context propagation in achieving a holistic view of your system’s state.
4. Practical Implementation Strategies: Walk through real-world examples of implementing OTel in startup environments. From choosing the right exporters to effectively instrumenting your applications, get practical tips and strategies for leveraging OTel to its full potential.