Open Source, OpenTelemetry, and Instana: What’s new and what’s next

Instana loves open source. Join us for a look at the current state of the OpenTelemetry ecosystem and the future of using OpenTelemetry together with Instana to close all of your organization’s observability gaps.

In this talk we’ll be demoing the OpenTelemetry Demo project, an example microservices application utilizing the latest open-source tools and standards, including:

• OpenTelemetry Instrumentation in 11 different programming languages (except Swift)
• Jaeger for Tracing
• Prometheus for Metrics
• Grafana Dashboards
• gRPC for telemetry and intra-service calls

 In this session, you will also learn:

• 3 different strategies for using OpenTelemetry signals with Instana
• When and why you should use OpenTelemetry instrumentation
• When to use the OTel Collector in your observability pipeline
• What’s coming next for OpenTelemetry and Instana