Distributed tracing and monitoring with OpenTelemetry
January 16, 2020
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.