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I got OpenTelemetry to work. But why was it so complicated?
A number of our customers have recently been asking whether we support OpenTelemetry, the observability framework and toolkit. When the first member of the team who’s client-facing asked me – the go-to guy...
I don’t really understand why there are four, but I think what’s happened is convergent evolution: different sets of people – unaware of one another – came to a shared conclusion regarding how to solve a specific problem. Metrics: Spring and Akka expose different Prometheus endpoints so won’t step on each other’s toes Logs: We use SLF4J and Logback which is common to both frameworks Traces: Both used OpenTracing , because Lightbend Telemetry uses a custom Tracer implementation which makes the shim and Jaeger freak out, and, instead of any of these things doing their job and propagating a trivial string-string map, spams the log with:
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