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What Do We Mean When We Talk About OpenTelemetry?

I'm motivated to write this post as a result of several discussions I've had over the past week or so prompted in part by the announcement of Elastic wanting to donate their profiling agent to the Ope…

austin·Feb 3·1 min read

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OTel TIL - What The Heck Is Instrumentation, Anyway?

Ever asked ChatGPT about OpenTelemetry? There's a pretty good chance that what it spits out at you started out as something I wrote, years ago. When the project started, I picked up where I left off m…

austin·Jan 25·1 min read

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Selling The Vision

OpenTelemetry can be a difficult project to describe to people, because the gap between what it is today and what it will be tomorrow is very large. It's easy to stare at it from a distance, squint yo…

austin·Jan 13·1 min read

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