Tech Basics
OpenTelemetry vs OpenTracing
Observability | Logging | Tracing | Instrumentation
In order to make a system observable, it must be instrumented.
If at any point of time you start work on observability solutions for managing complex services then you must have heard about OpenCensus, OpenTracing, and OpenTelemetry. In this post I will try to briefly touch these topics to get you started.
What is Monitoring?
In a generic context, monitoring is like looking at your system or application, or service vitals. In another context debugging starts from here.
What is Instrumentation?
I like the definition in which someone at NewRelic mentioned Instrumentation is measuring events in Software using code. These events come as a Telemetry data. Telemetry refers to data emitted from a system, about its behavior. The data can come in the form of Traces, Metrics, and Logs.
What is Observability?
Observability(o11y for short)is the practice of instrumenting systems with tools to gather data. There are 3 main pillars of Observability-> metrics, logs, and traces. But it does not mean that if you have all 3…
