Distributed tracing and monitoring with OpenTelemetry

OpenCensus is a new standard for tracing and metrics of cloud services, used for observability into applications that span multiple clouds and technological stacks. Simon Zeltser explains how to use vendor-agnostic client libraries for OpenCensus to export telemetry to common distributed tracing systems and covers core concepts like tags, metrics, exporters, zPages, and context propagation.

OpenCensus is an emerging standard for tracing and the metrics of cloud services. You can use it to gain observability into applications that span multiple clouds and technological stacks. Simon Zeltser explains how to use open source and vendor-agnostic client libraries for OpenCensus and export telemetry to common distributed tracing systems such as Zipkin and others. Along the way, he discusses core concepts such as tags, metrics, exporters, zPages, and trace context propagation.