Checkly: Open Source Observability with OpenTelemetry and Checkly

OpenTelemetry is the 'wave of the future' for observability, but is it ready for your team? Join us February 5th, 2024 for our first webinar of the year to learn how to use OpenTelemetry and Checkly for a full monitoring solution. We'll instrument a demo application and see what OpenTelmetry can do. We'll also cover basic data filtering and compression, and how to see our first visualizations

Nočnica, fresh off delivering a workshop at the CodeMash conference on January 9th, will share her knowledge from over 5 years as part of the OpenTelemetry community.

What we'll cover in the webinar:

OpenTelemetry

• History
• What's in the project - data backend, vizualization, Synthetics, and queries are not part of OTel
• Use cases - can help almost anyone
• Status of development - Logs support is still growing, but you can send logs through the collector

Where to send data

• Closed source SaaS backends
• issues with OTel data being a 'second class citizen'
• data in, but not data out
• Prometheus/Grafana
• Loki
• SigNoz/ClickHouse

Collector Design

• Most basic - direct from SDK to datastore, don't do this
• Single collector
• Collector -> collector
• Daemonset in Kubernetes (I promise you don't need to know Kubernetes to follow this webinar!)

Sample Application

• Basic data emitter from the CLI
• Auto-instrumentation with the language-appropriate SDK
• Configuring data sends

External Monitors

• Known OpenTelemetry Limitation
• Why we need it
• Systems that take their monitoring down with them

Checkly

• Configuration
• Frequency
• Playwright and more complex tests

Join us to learn how an open stack can give you insight into your whole system