Tracing Apache Kafka® with OpenTelemetry

Join us for an Apache Kafka® meetup on Thursday, July 10th from 7:00pm in Madrid hosted by MasOrange!
Talk in English.

📍Venue:
Orange Digital Center
Calle de San Bernardo, 101, Chamberí, 28015 Madrid

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🗓 Agenda:

• 7:00pm: Doors open
• 7:00pm - 7:15pm - Intro to the agenda
• 7:15pm - 8:00pm - Talk + Q&A w/Harry Kimpel from New Relic
• 8:00pm - 9:00pm - Pizzas, beverages and networking

💡 Speaker:
Harry Kimpel, Principal Developer Relations Engineer, New Relic

Title of Talk:
Tracing Kafka with OpenTelemetry

Abstract:
Ideally, you should be using distributed tracing to trace requests through your system, but Kafka decouples producers and consumers, which means there are no direct transactions to trace between them. Kafka also uses asynchronous processes, which have implicit, not explicit, dependencies. That makes it challenging to understand how your microservices are working together.

However, it is possible to monitor your Kafka clusters with distributed tracing and OpenTelemetry. You can then analyze and visualize your traces in an open source distributed tracing tool like Jaeger or a full observability platform like New Relic. In this talk I will leverage a simple application to show how you can achieve this.

Bio:
Passionate software craftsman with 25+ years experience in a broad spectrum of development technologies and platforms. Mostly focusing on .NET/C#, the Microsoft development stack and cloud-native software architectures. Key focus also on Microsoft Azure as well as Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Google Cloud Platform (GCP). Observability, monitoring and securing these environments are key aspects. Currently extremely interested in the Distributed Application Runtime (Dapr).

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