Achieving Observability into Your Application with OpenCensus
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Presented at SREConAsiaAustralia 2018 by
Application metrics and distributed traces are immensely powerful for developers, but are difficult to automatically retrieve. Based off of the same technology used at Google, OpenCensus is an open source project that aims to make the collection and submission of app metrics and traces easier for developers.In this talk you will learn about:The benefits of traces and metrics, and how we use them at GoogleThe case for a common instrumentation implementationAn architectural overview of OpenCensus, including integrations and exportersIntrospection via z-pagesOur vision of the future for instrumentationWhile the Census project originates from Google, it has evolved into an open source collaboration between multiple cloud and APM vendors and the OSS community, and already supports Prometheus, Zipkin, Stackdriver, and SignalFx.