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Exploring the Power of Distributed Tracing with OpenTelemetry on Kubernetes

This repository hosts content for tutorial for Kubecon EU 2024 Paris.

Previous tutorials:

Abstract: Rolling out an observability solution is not a straightforward problem. There are many solutions and the final architecture can impact the effectiveness, robustness, and long-term maintenance aspects of the architecture. In this comprehensive tutorial, we will deploy an end-to-end distributed tracing stack on Kubernetes using the OpenTelemetry project. The tutorial will cover both manual and auto-instrumentation, extending the auto-instrumentation, collecting data with the OpenTelemetry collector and performing transformation on spans using OTTL, tail-based sampling, deriving metrics from traces, tracing with proxies/service meshes and collecting traces from Kubernetes infrastructure. After this session, the audience will be able to understand and use OpenTelemetry API/SDK, auto-instrumentation, collector, and operator to roll out a working distributed tracing stack on Kubernetes.

Schedule: https://sched.co/1YePA

Slides: intro-slides

Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwy0I6vdtEE

Agenda

Internal meeting doc: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rbc0JqMP7i4koKpxqb9gYovmAlJ_BRN1Ttg3EhY9cbY/edit

Each tutorial step is located in a separate file:

  1. Welcome & Setup (Pavol, 5 min)
  2. OpenTelemetry distributed tracing introduction (Matej, 10 min)
  3. Auto-instrumentation (Pavol, 25 min)
  4. Manual-instrumentation (Bene, 10 min)
  5. Sampling (Bene & Anu, 15 min)
  6. Metrics from Traces (Anthony, 10 min)
  7. OpenTelemetry Transformation Language and Spans (Matej, 10 min)
  8. Wrap up & Questions
  9. K8S-Tracing (Bene, optional)