Practical OpenTelemetry: Adopting Open Observability Standards Across Your Organization

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D. Gomez BlancoPractical OpenTelemetryhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-9075-0_3

3. OpenTelemetry Fundamentals

Daniel Gomez Blanco¹  

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Edinburgh, UK

 

After having discussed the challenges of implementing observability using traditional operational monitoring practices and how OpenTelemetry proposes a different approach to solve those, it is finally time to dive into the project fundamentals. In this chapter, we’ll cover key concepts that will help the reader get a general grasp of the project structure and how different OpenTelemetry components relate to each other. We will then go through details of semantic conventions, as one of the key cross-signal aspects ...