Visibility of Complex Kafka Transactions Using OpenTelemetry

Hello Everyone!

It has been some time since we had a Melbourne Distributed - I hope you're keeping well.

We've got some great community talks on the backlog so rather than wait for in-person meetups to start again let's just get going with another zoom hangout.

When: October 21, 1930 AEST.
Where:

Zoom. https://us06web.zoom.us/j/7596500806?pwd=cnl1S1pIWlNTTHBOMTd2NUZXY3Q1UT09

Who:

In October we're joined by Michael Haberman, he's CTO and Co-Founder of Aspecto (https://aspecto.io/). They have a passion for distributed tracing and maintain open-source projects related to Trace-Based Testing (https://github.com/aspecto-io/malabi).

Michael is going to talk about using OpenTelemetry to improve visibility of your distributed systems, using Kafka as an example. Here's the detail:

Visibility of Complex Kafka Transactions Using OpenTelemetry

In recent years the usage of event-driven architecture is growing rapidly. With it, It’s becoming harder to keep track of everything that happens in our system and the relations between the different components. The need for solutions that can provide us with granular visibility into these complex transactions is greater than ever.

OpenTelemetry is here to help. This widely used CNCF open-source project enables us to instrument and collect inter-service communication. It provides you with data that empowers you to understand what is slow or broken and what you can do to solve it.

In this session, you will learn what is OpenTelemetry, how it helps you, and how you can get started with it today. We will show you how to leverage OpenTelemetry to get end-to-end visibility into your system and easily troubleshoot cases in environments that utilize Kafka.

Join us for a great chat, and if you have interesting talks bubbling away in your brains about practical experience of distributed systems or things your peers in this space might find interesting - let me know!