2024-10-21

OTel docs usability survey

OpenTelemetry's End-User Special Interest Group (SIG) is currently doing a docs usability survey. This survey, open until mid November, should only take you a few minutes to fill in and the feedback is super important to identify the kind of docs most beneficial to users of all experience levels. Please consider participating in the survey!

OTel Python example

In An OpenTelemetry Python Example — Building a Tesla Monitor, David Juarez provides a hands-on example of applying OTel to the EV domain, showing manual instrumentation in detail.

SCaLE 22x CfP

Something we don't have often in this newsletter, however, I found the aspect interesting and worth a mention: the Southern California Linux Expo 2025 (SCaLE 22x) has its Call For Presenters (CfP) open until 1st of November, this time around with a track dedicated to observability!

Long-running spans in OTel

Via TNS: OpenTelemetry Challenges: Handling Long-Running Spans by the amazing Hazel Weakly motivates the challenge and provides guidance on how to tackle long-running spans in OTel.

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