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Specifications for OpenTelemetry

16 mentions on Hacker News by 16 people: 1 story, 15 comments · first 2019-08-12 · latest 2025-05-09

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  1. very cool - made me consider the contrasts with token-bucket rate limiting for log collection and stumbled across a interesting discussion https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-specificatio...
    comment by tomsonj · 2025-05-09 · in Reservoir Sampling
  2. Well actually. They (python SDK maintainers) argue their implementation is the correct one according to the spec. See this issue thread for example. https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-specificatio... There are more. This is a…
    comment by tnolet · 2024-06-14 · in The problem with OpenTelemetry
  3. At the risk of hijacking the comments, I've been trying to use OTel recently to debug performance of a complex webpage with lots of async sibling spans, and finding it very very difficult to identify the critical path / bottlenecks.…
    comment by markl42 · 2024-06-14 · in The problem with OpenTelemetry
  4. Sure, happy to provide more specifics! Our main issue was the lack of a synchronous gauge. The officially supported asynchronous API of registering a callback function to report a gauge metric is very different from how we were doing…
    comment by bhyolken · 2023-11-16 · in Migrating to OpenTelemetry
  5. Two problems with OpenTelemetry: 1. It doesn't know what the hell it is. Is it a semantic standard? Is a protocol? It is a facade? It is a library? What layer of abstraction does it provide? Answer: All of the above! All the things! All…
    comment by paulddraper · 2023-08-28 · in OpenTelemetry in 2023
  6. That's why you have otel logging: https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-specificatio...
    comment by wdb · 2022-09-12 · in Discussion: structured, leveled logging
  7. There are a large amount of subtle tradeoffs around the bucketing scheme (log, vs. log-linear, base) and memory layout (sparse, dense, chunked) the amount of configurability in the histogram space (circllhist, DDSketch, HDRHistogram, ...).…
    comment by heinrichhartman · 2022-05-15 · in Monarch: Google’s Planet-Scale In-Memory Time Series Database
  8. A good place to look at is the milestones on GitHub: https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-specificatio... Logging is still experimental in the spec. Metrics API is feature freeze and the protocol is stable, so it's more on…
    comment by phillipcarter · 2021-10-28 · in OpenTelemetry
  9. I think you are right and data model should have been event based rather than span based. https://medium.com/opentracing/open-for-event-based-tracing-... digs into that topic and basically says that distributed tracing is about causality &…
    comment by unportant · 2021-10-28 · in OpenTelemetry
  10. OpenMetrics relates to the metrics part of OpenTelemetry, where the latter is currently in alpha/experimental phase. OpenTelemetry has a statement on being interoperable with OpenMetrics for both accepting, forwarding and generating in the…
    comment by bastijn · 2021-10-28 · in OpenTelemetry
  11. For the long running scenario, why not use Links? The specification describes[1] a similar scenario and how links can be leveraged to causally relate spans even across trace boundaries. As for the crashing scenario, this seems like an…
    comment by beeandapenguin · 2021-10-27 · in OpenTelemetry
  12. Indeed. For those unfamiliar, take a quick read of https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-specificatio... There are a few concepts to understand, but instrumenting it right from the start is valuable as it grows into a bigger…
    comment by billti · 2021-10-05 · in My Logging Best Practices (2020)
  13. You can check the first link that states the overview - https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-specificatio... It's a distributed request tracing specification & set of libraries implementing the said spec
    comment by harpratap · 2020-09-24 · in OpenTelemetry
  14. Here is the draft plan for logs: https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-specificatio... Logs are not going to be part of OpenTelemetry 1.0 release (only traces and metrics will). Logs are coming later (no specific timeline yet).…
    comment by tignaj · 2020-09-24 · in OpenTelemetry
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    story by privacyonsec · 2020-09-23 · 65 comments
  16. I'm working on the OpenTelemetry JS project and i previously worked a bit on OpenCensus NodeJS. The aim with both projects (OpenCensus/OpenTelemetry) is the same: having a open source implementation where you can change the exporter (to…
    comment by vmarchaud · 2019-08-12 · in OpenCensus Web: A tool to trace and monitor user-perceived performance