OpenTelemetry -- what is it and why does it matter? [Q&A]

When OpenTelemetry was first released in 2019, there was a good deal of excitement about the prospect of a single standard set of telemetry data for the entire modern software stack. OpenTelemetry set out to make robust, portable telemetry a built-in feature of cloud-native software, and give developers and platform engineers a common mental model for all the telemetry types. We talked to Juraci Paixão Kröhling, governance committee member for the OpenTelemetry project, and principal engineer at Grafana Labs to learn more. BN: What was the original purpose of OpenTelemetry, and how is it performing against that mission? JPK: To… [Continue Reading]