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Below you'll find all the OpenTelemetry articles on the site, followed by a chronological listing of the same. You may also browse the 2 series directly via the following links. An Introduction to Prometheus and Metrics and Tracing Systems with Zipkin and OpenTracing.

An Introduction to Prometheus and Metrics

  1. What is Prometheus?
  2. What are Prometheus Exporters?
  3. What are OpenTelemetry Metrics and Exporters

Tracing Systems with Zipkin and OpenTracing

  1. What is a Zipkin Trace?
  2. Instrumenting Traces with Zipkin
  3. Tracing NodeJS Services with Open Telemetry
  4. OpenTelemetry's NPM Packages

OpenTelemetry’s NPM Packages

This entry is part 4 of 4 in the series Tracing Systems with Zipkin and OpenTracing. Earlier posts include What is a Zipkin Trace?, Instrumenting Traces with Zipkin, and Tracing NodeJS Services with Open Telemetry. This is the most recent post in the series. In our previous OpenTelemetry articles, we gave a broad “hello [...]

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Tracing NodeJS Services with Open Telemetry

This entry is part 3 of 4 in the series Tracing Systems with Zipkin and OpenTracing. Earlier posts include What is a Zipkin Trace?, and Instrumenting Traces with Zipkin. Later posts include OpenTelemetry's NPM Packages. In the first two articles in this series we took a crash course in instrumenting a small three service system using [...]

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Instrumenting Traces with Zipkin

This entry is part 2 of 4 in the series Tracing Systems with Zipkin and OpenTracing. Earlier posts include What is a Zipkin Trace?. Later posts include Tracing NodeJS Services with Open Telemetry, and OpenTelemetry's NPM Packages. Last time we ran a small, three service pre-instrumented system that reported spans into Zipkin. In this [...]

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What is a Zipkin Trace?

This entry is part 1 of 4 in the series Tracing Systems with Zipkin and OpenTracing. Later posts include Instrumenting Traces with Zipkin, Tracing NodeJS Services with Open Telemetry, and OpenTelemetry's NPM Packages. In our last series we took a look at Prometheus, its metric data types, and how it compares to the OpenTelemetry project. [...]

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What are OpenTelemetry Metrics and Exporters

This entry is part 3 of 3 in the series An Introduction to Prometheus and Metrics. Earlier posts include What is Prometheus?, and What are Prometheus Exporters?. This is the most recent post in the series. Last time we ended by musing that Prometheus, while an open source project, still creates a case of vendor lock-in for its users. [...]

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What are Prometheus Exporters?

This entry is part 2 of 3 in the series An Introduction to Prometheus and Metrics. Earlier posts include What is Prometheus?. Later posts include What are OpenTelemetry Metrics and Exporters. In our first article, we covered four core Prometheus concepts and used those four concepts to instrument a simple service written in NodeJS. One [...]

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What is Prometheus?

This entry is part 1 of 3 in the series An Introduction to Prometheus and Metrics. Later posts include What are Prometheus Exporters?, and What are OpenTelemetry Metrics and Exporters. One surprising thing about the software instrumentation world, a world that helps us see what our systems are doing, is how opaque the instrumentation [...]

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