Session: OTel Me How I Can Monitor Kubernetes with OpenTelemetry
Since Kubernetes 1.0 was released in 2015, it has given you the power to manage containerized apps at scale, but it has also created new challenges. One of these challenges is monitoring the health and performance of your Kubernetes clusters and pods. Today, you have multiple open source tools you can use to address this issue, including something called OpenTelemetry.
OpenTelemetry is a collection of APIs, SDKs, and tools built on an open standard that you can use to instrument, generate, and export telemetry from your services. It also provides a program called the Collector, which comes with many plugins you can use to receive, process, and export your data. In this session, I will teach you about the various components that are available for your Kubernetes data, why you might want to consider using OpenTelemetry to monitor your Kubernetes, as well as considerations to take into account
