OpenTelemetry configuration gotchas Last week, I described several approaches to OpenTelemetry on the JVM, their requirements, and their different results. This week, I want to highlight several gotchas found across stacks in the zero-code instrumentation. The promise of OpenTelemetry Since its inception, OpenTelemetry has unified the 3 pillars of observability. In the distributed tracing space, it replaced proprietary protocols Zipkin and Jaeger. IMHO, it achieved such success for several reasons: First, a huge industry press
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