In this episode, we're talking all about OpenTelemetry. Also, Allen lays down some knowledge, Joe plays director and Outlaw stumps the chumps.
See the full show notes at https://www.codingblocks.net/episode216
News
- Thanks for the reviews Lanjunnn and scott339!
- Allen made the video on generating a baseball lineup application just by chatting with ChatGPT (youtube)
https://youtu.be/i6jSeLvoFmM
Allen made the video on generating a baseball lineup application just by chatting with ChatGPT
What is OpenTelemetry?
- An incubating project on the CNCF - Cloud Native Computing Foundation (cncf.io)
- What does incubating mean?
- Projects used in production by a small number of users with a good pool of contributors
- Basically you shouldn't be left out to dry here
- So what is Open Telemetry? A collection of APIs, SDKs and Tools that's used to instrument, generate, collect and export telemetry data
- This helps you analyze your software's performance and behavior
- It's available across multiple languages and frameworks
It's all about Observability
- Understanding a system "from the outside"
- Doesn't require you to understand the inner workings of the system
- The goal is to be able to troubleshoot difficult problems and answer the "Why is this happening?" Question
- To answer those questions, the application must be properly "Instrumented"
- This means the application must emit signals like metrics, traces, and logs
- The application is properly instrumented when you can completely troubleshoot an issue with the instrumentation available
- That is the job of OpenTelemetry - to be the mechanism to instrument applications so they become observable
- List of vendors that support OpenTelemetry: https://opentelemetry.io/ecosystem/vendors/
Reliability and Metrics
- Telemetry - refers to the data emitted from a system about its behavior in the form of metrics, traces and logs
- Reliability - is the system behaving the way it's supposed to? Not just, is it up and running, but also is it doing what it is expected to do
- Metrics - numeric aggregations over a period of time about your application or infrastructure
- CPU Utilization
- Application error rates
- Number of requests per second