opentelemetry-tracing

What problem does it solve?

Distributed tracing is often hard to implement and maintain across microservice stacks, leading to blind spots in request flows and slow debugging.

Core Features & Use Cases

• Initialize OpenTelemetry for Java Spring Boot and Node.js/TypeScript
• Create spans with proper hierarchy, attributes, events, and error handling
• Configure context propagation using W3C Trace Context headers
• Set up OTLP exporters to send traces to backends like Tempo or Jaeger
• Implement sampling strategies and apply semantic conventions
• Use cases include adding tracing to services, debugging broken traces, and tracing inter-service calls

Quick Start

Install the appropriate OpenTelemetry SDKs, initialize tracing in your service, and start creating spans around core operations.