OpenTelemetry, Not Just for Production Troubleshooting: How to Prevent Downtime as Early as Local Dev

OpenTelemetry is a great tool for observability and debugging in production. It provides you with data that empowers understanding of what is slow or broken, as well as what you can do to fix problems that occur in production. But what if you could leverage those same OpenTelemetry capabilities in pre-production? What if you could use those capabilities during development and testing phases to proactively prevent downtime in production?

In this talk, Michael will show you how to leverage OpenTelemetry to gather and analyze data from production and how to use it in pre-production workflows. Using OTel in pre-production can help developers troubleshoot microservices, validate their changes, and prevent issues before they get to production. By attending this talk, you'll learn how to use OpenTelemetry data to become proactive rather than reactive.