We need to monitor our service's performance, but large closed SaaS options are expensive and complex. OpenTelemetry is the 'wave of the future' for observability, but is it ready for your team? Yes!

Join Nočnica to see a demonstration of instrumenting a demo application and learn what OpenTelemetry can do. We'll also add external site monitors with Checkly synthetics checks.

You'll learn:

• What's in the OpenTelemetry Project, and how you can use it
• How to architect data collection for OpenTelemetry
• How to add Synthetic User testing and uptime monitoring with Checkly

Chapters:

00:00 Intro

00:15 What is Observability?

03:41 How Microservices Challenge

07:31 What's part of OpenTelemetry

09:00 The three pillars of Observability

16:30 Distributed tracing

19:00 Data Cardinality and High Cardinality Data

26:15 Filtering data with the OTel Collector

33:15 Synthetic Monitoring with Checkly

41:03 Outros and Discussion