OTel Me All About OpenTelemetry The Current & Future State, Navigating the Project, and Getting Involved
- 1. OTel Me All About OpenTelemetry The Current & Future State, Navigating the Project, and Getting Involved Reese Lee, New Relic
- 2. AGENDA ● Introductions ● Current & Future State ● Navigating the Project ● Getting Involved ● Q&A
- 3. INTRODUCTIONS Reese Lee Developer Relations Engineer OpenTelemetry Community Team, New Relic Is also into: the paranormal, stand-up comedy, and all the foods
- 4. INTRODUCTIONS What is purpose of this webinar? ● To help end users navigate the community and project ● To encourage contributions
- 5. INTRODUCTIONS What is the OpenTelemetry project? ● A collection of tools, APIs, and SDKs ● To help you analyze your software’s performance and behavior ● Merging of OpenTracing and OpenCensus in 2019
- 6. INTRODUCTIONS What is OpenTelemetry not? ● OpenTelemetry != backend or storage solution
- 7. CURRENT & FUTURE STATE ● What’s the current state of the project? ● What’s new and upcoming?
- 8. CURRENT & FUTURE STATE What’s the current state of the project?
- 9. CURRENT & FUTURE STATE What’s the current state of the project? opentelemetry.io/status
- 10. CURRENT & FUTURE STATE What’s the current state of the project? Data Model GA (2020) GA (2021) GA (2022) API Spec GA (2021) GA (2022) In progress SDK Spec GA (2021) GA (2022) In progress Protocol GA (2021) GA (2022) GA (2022) Implementations 8 GA, 4 in progress 0 GA, 5 RC, 7 in progress 0 GA, 0 RC, Collector usable in prod Traces Metrics Logs
- 11. CURRENT & FUTURE STATE What’s new and upcoming? ● Metrics RC and GA releases ● Profiles being added as a new signal ● Logging GA targeted for 2023 ● Instrumentation availability and quality ● Community demo application SIG ● End user discussion group
- 12. NAVIGATING THE PROJECT ● Concepts & Components ● Community ○ SIGs ○ Governance Committee ○ Technical Committee ● Documentation ● Bonus: OTEPs
- 13. NAVIGATING THE PROJECT What are some of the various OpenTelemetry concepts and components? ● API ● SDK ● Semantic conventions ● Specification ● Collector ● OTLP
- 14. NAVIGATING THE PROJECT What are some of the various OpenTelemetry concepts and components? ● API ● SDK ● Semantic conventions ● Specification ● Collector ● OTLP Provides a standard way to collect instrumentation data
- 15. NAVIGATING THE PROJECT What are some of the various OpenTelemetry concepts and components? ● API ● SDK ● Semantic conventions ● Specification ● Collector ● OTLP Provides standard ways to configure what we want to do with the instrumentation data collected by the API
- 16. NAVIGATING THE PROJECT What are some of the various OpenTelemetry concepts and components? ● API ● SDK ● Semantic conventions ● Specification ● Collector ● OTLP Conventional attributes that describe common software operations
- 17. NAVIGATING THE PROJECT What are some of the various OpenTelemetry concepts and components? ● API ● SDK ● Semantic conventions ● Specification ● Collector ● OTLP Provides blueprints for all of the above to bring standardization across all languages
- 18. NAVIGATING THE PROJECT What are some of the various OpenTelemetry concepts and components? ● API ● SDK ● Semantic conventions ● Specification ● Collector ● OTLP A highly configurable system for processing telemetry data
- 19. NAVIGATING THE PROJECT What are some of the various OpenTelemetry concepts and components? ● API ● SDK ● Semantic conventions ● Specification ● Collector ● OTLP How each data signal should be encoded and transferred over OpenTelemetry’s exchange protocol
- 20. NAVIGATING THE PROJECT What are the SIGs? ● Special Interest Groups ● Improve workflow, manage project efficiently ● Each SIG meets regularly, meeting notes and recordings are available (check public calendar) ● Examples: Communications, Ruby, Collector
- 21. NAVIGATING THE PROJECT What is the Governance Committee? ● Role: “to be a live, responsive body that can refactor and reform as necessary to adapt to a changing project and community” What is the Technical Committee? ● Role: “responsible for all technical development within the OpenTelemetry project”
- 22. NAVIGATING THE PROJECT What about documentation? ● opentelemetry.io/docs ● Communications SIG ● Some languages have more comprehensive documentation than others ● Standardization and improvements under way
- 23. NAVIGATING THE PROJECT Bonus: What are OTEPs? ● OpenTelemetry Enhancement Proposal ● OTEP process for proposing changes to the specification ● Cross-cutting changes that “introduce new behaviour, change desired behaviour, or otherwise modify requirements”
- 24. GETTING INVOLVED ● How do I get help with using OpenTelemetry? ● What areas need help, and why should/how can I contribute?
- 25. GETTING INVOLVED How do I get help with using OpenTelemetry? ● Slack ○ Vendor-specific or #otel-vendor ○ General ● Github ● End user discussion (incoming)
- 26. GETTING INVOLVED What areas need help, and why should/how can I contribute?
- 27. GETTING INVOLVED What areas need help, and why should/how can I contribute? ● Honestly, everything ● But particularly: ○ Documentation ○ PHP ○ Instrumentation (defining semantic conventions and maintaining contributed instrumentation)
- 28. GETTING INVOLVED What areas need help, and why should/how can I contribute?
- 29. GETTING INVOLVED What areas need help, and why should/how can I contribute? Implementers have one view of the universe, end users have another. We need more end users to speak up and have a voice in the project! Ted Young, co-founder of OpenTelemetry and Director of Developer Education, Lightstep
- 30. GETTING INVOLVED What areas need help, and why should/how can I contribute? Juraci Paixão Kröhling, OpenTelemetry maintainer and Software Engineer, Grafana
- 31. GETTING INVOLVED What areas need help, and why should/how can I contribute? …the biggest advantage is that companies can help shape the project's direction according to their needs, and I don't mean it in a bad way at all: a lot of times, the project maintainers make decisions based on what they think users would want. Sometimes, we have data or requests from actual customers, but it's not the same thing: having the opinions of a diverse user base is essential for the project's success. Juraci Paixão Kröhling, OpenTelemetry maintainer and Software Engineer, Grafana
- 32. GETTING INVOLVED What areas need help, and why should/how can I contribute? But one thing I see companies doing wrong is just telling their folks to contribute, without a strategy in mind. So, my advice is to focus on the areas that matter to the company, with a plan and strategic direction. If they can get measurable goals attached to the company's own goal, so much the better: this way, their open source contributions become relevant to the company! Juraci Paixão Kröhling, OpenTelemetry maintainer and Software Engineer, Grafana
- 33. GETTING INVOLVED What areas need help, and why should/how can I contribute? I love working in open source because its global nature exposes me to a very diverse set of people, ideas, and opinions that would otherwise be difficult to tap into. Daniel Dyla, OpenTelemetry maintainer & Governance Committee Member, and Senior Open Source Architect, Dynatrace
- 34. GETTING INVOLVED What areas need help, and why should/how can I contribute? I also especially love the community feeling in OpenTelemetry where vendors and platforms who would ordinarily be considered competitors can work together to improve the state of the ecosystem for everybody involved. Daniel Dyla, OpenTelemetry maintainer & Governance Committee Member, and Senior Open Source Architect, Dynatrace
- 35. GETTING INVOLVED What areas need help, and why should/how can I contribute? …participating and contributing to OSS helps you hone your skills. If you have not worked for a remote-first company before, joining an OSS project will help you gain real world experience. Ariel Valentin, OpenTelemetry contributor & adopter, and Software Engineer Observability, GitHub
- 36. GETTING INVOLVED What areas need help, and why should/how can I contribute? ● What are you interested in? ● Code and non-code contributions welcome ● Join: ○ Mailing lists ○ The appropriate SIG ○ Community meetings
- 37. GETTING INVOLVED What areas need help, and why should/how can I contribute? ● Share your experiences and feedback about using OpenTelemetry with us!
- 38. Q&A What else would you like to know?
- 39. RESOURCES OpenTelemetry links ● Official site ● Community Github ● Google calendar ● CNCF Slack Get or keep in touch with me! ● LinkedIn (reese-lee) ● @reesesbytes (Twitter)