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Introduction to OpenTelemetry: Instrumentation, Collectors, and Exporters
Platform Engineering
EP 32 2026-06-24

Introduction to OpenTelemetry: Instrumentation, Collectors, and Exporters

Unifying tracing, logging, and metrics gathering under a single open standard framework.

Speakers: Troy (Host), Autumn (Co-host)
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Show Notes

We discuss manual and auto-instrumentation SDKs, configuring the OpenTelemetry Collector, and routing traffic to Thanos/Jaeger.

Key Takeaways

  • OTel Collector simplifies telemetry processing, batching, and routing.
  • Traces correlate logs to specific HTTP/gRPC request threads.
  • Semantic conventions standardize metric names across languages.

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