Tutorial: Exploring the Power of Distributed Tracing with OpenTelemetry on Kubernetes

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Tutorial: Exploring the Power of Distributed Tracing with OpenTelemetry on Kubernetes - Pavol Loffay & Benedikt Bongartz, Red Hat; Matej Gera, Coralogix; Anthony Mirabella, AWS; Anusha Reddy Narapureddy, Apple

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.