Re:OpenTelemetry
by lizthegrey on Wednesday October 27, 2021 @07:26PM
(#29020347)
Lightstep was one of the originators of the combined spec -- but yes, the churn has been really painful, and we're sorry for the pre-1.0 pain. Now that the spec is 1.0 and most of the language SIGs have put out 1.0 API/SDK releases for tracing, hopefully that pain will reced.
Re:OpenTelemetry
by Game_Ender on Thursday October 28, 2021 @07:55AM
(#29024974)
Do you have an insight on the timeline for stabilizing the metrics and logging specs?
Re:OpenTelemetry
by phillipcarter on Thursday October 28, 2021 @10:29AM
(#29026524)
A good place to look at is the milestones on GitHub: https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-specificatio...
Logging is still experimental in the spec. Metrics API is feature freeze and the protocol is stable, so it's more on language SDKs to stabilize their implementations. This is a focus for several of them right now.
It's been a lot of change and I can't wait for things to settle down and for companies to stop trying to get their piece. I feel like everyone (Datadog, NewRelic, Google, etc.) saw Lightstep as a competitor and wanted to get involved with a competing spec, which is how we ended up in this consensus mess.
Still, it's good progress and it's so much better than raw logs. Would recommend.